word of wisdom

[sarettah]

Originally posted by Serge_Oprano@Apr 29 2004, 02:27 PM
Sare, the counter CHANGED the practice YESTERDAY after the outcry from webmasters.

you are one day short
;-)))

lol...I kind of figured that part out...........

Hooper..........

Ok, I went and decided to give this all a little benefit of the doubt.

So. I went to Isearch and purposely installed the toolbar.

First of all. You really do not reveal anywhere what yoiu are installing. No list of features. No agreement, nothing. I would think for legal purposes on both sides (you and the user) you would want at least some sort of standard software disclaimer indicating what is being installed.

I pulled up my file settings and registry settings before and after the install. From what I can see it installs toolbar.dll which is referenced as a search hook, a browser helper object and a toolbar. It also writes an extra context menu entry that calls for initial.cab to be loaded from isearch.

I downloaded initial.cab and did not find anything screwy there.

The search bar itself is not in my mind at all impressive. Nothing new or great there for the user. There is a piss off point because upon install, your toolbar makes the toolbar menu in IE inaccessible.

Ok, so then I went and checked to see if there was an uninstall option in my software removal settings in the control panel. Noper, not there. I went to isearch and downloaded the uninstaller that you have there. It did not uninstall anything, came back with a message that it could not uninstall. Since I had not rebooted since the install, I went ahead and rebooted and then ran the uninstall. No good again.

I then went in and manually removed it from my system, set my registry back etcetra.

Only trace of it at this point is that my toolbar menu in IE is still unaccessable.