Yahoo toolbar, nuisance or just bad?

[Dancing David]

Hi,

I always delete the sucker when I find it at work (and your Google tollbar too, my pretty.). My son was sick and downloaded some NICK games (despite being 14) and Yahoo toolbar came with them.

Machine became glitchy,it froze a lot, something always running in the background. So it is gone now.

Is it Malware or something?

[Soapy Sam]

Just a damned nuisance I think.
I delete all browser extenders wherever I find them, then carve a "Z" on the monitor with my logic probe.

[Rat]

I delete the Yahoo toolbar on sight. I do, however, leave the Google toolbar on, because it's never done anything bad yet, and I suspect Irfan Skiljan gets a penny (or a tiny fraction thereof) each time I allow the IrfanView installer to add it. Since I load up a lot of machines, I might have made him a couple of pence in total so far.

[arthwollipot]

I don't use the Yahoo toolbar and I don't use the Google toolbar. They're annying and they take up screen real estate.

[Rat]

I don't use the Yahoo toolbar and I don't use the Google toolbar. They're annying and they take up screen real estate.
But they don't take up my real estate. I install the Google TB on many machines, including my own. But of course I use Firefox and Chrome, so I never see it. And I don't care if the lusers see it; they could uninstall it if they were both inclined and competent to do so.

[arthwollipot]

Lusers are inclined and competent to do anything? That lies outside of my experience. :D

[Dancing David]

I delete the Yahoo toolbar on sight. I do, however, leave the Google toolbar on, because it's never done anything bad yet, and I suspect Irfan Skiljan gets a penny (or a tiny fraction thereof) each time I allow the IrfanView installer to add it. Since I load up a lot of machines, I might have made him a couple of pence in total so far.


I would leave the Google toolbar at work but it is against distrcit policy. The real issue is that the Google updater ties up bandwidth on particular machines and people complain that they are 'slow' not understanding we have like over two thousand machines and they all drink from the same bandwidth.

I guess my concern is that it really insinuates it's way into the system and changes lots and lots of settings, and it seems to slow systems down. i athink it is more like a spyware/adware program, but I assume it's privacy policy tells you that somewhere.