Yahoo! Toolbar Now With Anti-Spyware

It should.... but if it worked properly, it would continuously be warning users of the monster C:\WINDOWS virus.

Any public numbers on how many people use the Yahoo Toolbar?

Hmmm...I'm not sure many people want Microsoft determining what should or should not be installed on their computer. Plus, all it would take is one company to complain their software was incorrectly labeled as spyware and Microsoft would be in hot water again.

Yes, Microsoft should do this. In fact they recently added tool-bar for IE with a pop-ups blocker -- long over due from MS.

But here is what I like to ask: if MS provides Anti-Spyware in their tool-bar, will other mom-and-pop Anti-Spyware companies be out of business?

Or, didn't Yahoo! just put mom-and-pop Anti-Spyware company out of business by doing this? Is Anti-Spyware is Yahoo! core business?

We can easily apply this to other elements that are now part of Windows and many more will soon be.

I am not trying to be negative -- just asking open questions.

That's the whole spirit of this capitalism game--competition. If somebody comes out with a better product than yours, you've either got to improve, or else you are gone. If mom & pop spyware isn't as good as Yahoo's, it's gone. And all this is perfectly legal as long as Yahoo isn't exercising any anti-competitive practices.

I don't know of any published numbers. But I haven't looked very hard either.

Supposedly, many of the spyware companies are extremely litigious. Whether certain apps are spyware or not is also a bit of a grey area. (The full Google toolbar reports what pages you view as a side effect of populating the page info menu, for example.)

I can understand MS wanting to stay out of this space. Too many opportunities for baseless but expensive lawsuits, and too many PR mishaps to be had if you brand the wrong app as spyware. On top of this, if blocking spyware becomes an OS feature, clean up from failures to do so arguably become MS support issues.

Actually, once Service Pack #2 for WinXP comes out, IE will have a pop-up blocker (one of our machines here is running the pre versions of SP2).

Not that it bothers me, Firebird on Linux works just fine when dealing with the pesky pop-up blockers.

>Or, didn't Yahoo! just put mom-and-pop Anti-Spyware company out of business by doing this?

no, more like Y! is helping mom-and-pop company. the anti-spyware portion is licensed from a "well known" (or is "well established" a better term?) company.

also, expect mom-and-pop antispyware companies to put themselves out of business. from my dealings with some of them, major mishaps are happening that will put them behind their competitors.

will other mom-and-pop Anti-Spyware companies be out of business?
What kind of backwards reasoning is this? By that logic, it would be bad if Microsoft fixed the flaws in their products, because all the antivirus, security, add-on, and other vendors who grew on the soil of MS product deficiencies would go out of business?

Do you seriously believe this crap yourself?

So the Yahoo Toolbar removes spyware. But doesn't it "spy" on your web habits? Like the Google toolbar. I am sure it mentions this in very small letters in the terms of service.

This is good info for users /mayority of them still use and will use IE and other Microsoft products/, but spyware companies will not be so happy ;)

I'm curious how this will work with spyware programs that user want to install - like free versions of Kazaa etc.

The real problem is the overblown object way that microsoft programms its software. This allows those with sufficient knowledge to exploit the O/S and browser settings, DLL etc. Truly Microsoft will become the most useless system on earth if they dont get thier act together...

They should do something about bad spelling errors also...........

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Any idea how many users use toolbars like Alexa's who's toolbar is considered 'spyware'. Google's toolbar seems to be in wide use down here in Cape Town. First time I've heard of the Yahoo! Companion.

Why does the spyware product have to be bundled with the toolbar. The number of visitors to yahoo's search page is more than thenumber of toolbar users, so what if yahoo simply branded a lightweight 'mom & pop' toolbar and promoted it on their search pages (the way google uses their front page to promote froogle?)

Blocking spyware from a Yahoo toolbar sounded like a great idea, so I went to check it out. IE only. As a Mozilla user, this is disappointing.

my review.

Now how does the signature file updates???

well, my version of yahoo toolbar is only 5.3
n i wish to upgrade my yahoo toolbar wit more features.. anyone can tell me how to upgrade my yahoo toolbar?? thanks...

i need the free spy where or upgrade for my tool bar i dont have it and would like to try it thank you

my computer has spyware and adware and i need a free spyware and adware removal i already downloaded the the yahoo toolbar with anti spi but it doesn't includes inmy yahoo menu toolbar.
What else i need to do? Thanks

i had an old version of yahoo toolbar.i then tried to install the new one with spyware .it goes to both windows but at the end an error message that says'an error occurred while attempting to download yahootoolbar.click here to try again' when i click on the said link it strats again and returns to the same error message.

i had an old version of yahoo toolbar.i then tried to install the new one with spyware .it goes to both windows but at the end an error message that says'an error occurred while attempting to download yahootoolbar.click here to try again' when i click on the said link it strats again and returns to the same error message.

i had an old version of yahoo toolbar.i then tried to install the new one with spyware .it goes to both windows but at the end an error message that says'an error occurred while attempting to download yahootoolbar.click here to try again' when i click on the said link it strats again and returns to the same error message.

Actually Its good that huge companies like Yahoo and Microsoft started to fight agains spyware and adware. It must be regulated.

how do i take off from the apyware pc virus

how do i take off the spyware and the addware.

How do you remove the addware and the spyware from your computer and for it to stay removed.

Try using the system restore in win xp to restore your system to an older date. It works most of the time, especially if done immediately after infection.

Yahoo isn't always playing on the up and up itself. I tried to install Yahoo messenger and got a whole mess of additional features. The worst was that my firefox browser was messed with so the location bar would no longer automatically find the closest matching site to the term i entered. So for example, "target" would take me to a "no rsults" page which was totally annoying vs. the target.com site which is what I wanted. So, I uninstslled every Yahoo program and it *still* did not go away. I couldn't believe that Yahoo would stoop to such nefarious activity of changing hidden parameters that arent't easily editable. So, after some very angry searching, I found information about the Firefox configuration files and was able to recover my previous searching setup. For all those who have run into the same situation, what you need to do is: 1. Type about:config in your location bar. This will display a list of configurations for your browser. The bolded ones have been changed from the default. 2. Right click on the ones that have the Yahoo url in it and set it to "reset". This will get you back to Firefox default settings. 3. Close browser window and open new one. You should be all set.

I was a long-time fan and Yahoo user and now find myself sorely disappointed. While some aspects of the Yahoo toolbar looked interesting, there's no way I'll use it given the underhanded stuff that went along with it.

So....you're using AdSense. Why *is* that ?

How to remove yahootoolbar from my computer programes ? please help me by saying what to do as i got big problems when i installed it .

Hi there,

I have found that Yahoo Toolbar will not work in Vista Internet Explorer.

When IE is closed the screen is shaded white and an error message appears.

If the Yahoo Toolbar is disabled in Manage Add-ons IE works just fine.

So I uninstalled Yahoo Toolbar!

See Yah,
Ty