Talk:MyWay Searchbar

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It would be really good exept for one thing unlike other toolbars, you can't seem to turn it off at all. It's either installed or uninstalled and if it's uninstalled you loose all the really cool things that come with it (the smiley's and cursor program for starters never mind the Email wall papers (yahoo charge #11.99 for those)), it's a shame but I don't have room for another toolbar on screen all the time......DS

[edit] POV-Check

I added the POV check tag because this is a disputed topic and the claim that it is spyware could be disputed.

[edit] My experience 2006/10/29

I use FireFox, but accidentally opened Explorer 6. I noticed something called "MySearch" underneath where the URL is entered. I looked it up on Wikipedia and found this. I never installed this program. When I attempted to uninstall it via Add/Remove Programs, it said that I would no longer receive "promotional offers", among other things. When I pressed the uninstall button, it would not uninstall. It is clearly malware of some sort, and is probably spyware, since in order to send me these "promotional offers" it would need to record information about me.

I will look into this further. I will also post a picture of the uninstall screen.

Though it being spyware is almost undisputable, this article is very opinionated.

SteveSims 03:32, 30 October 2006 (UTC)