A Revolution is the Solution
"When your toolbar is used to make purchases on Amazon.com you get paid a commission from the Amazon associate program."
http://alexa.com/site/devcorner/
...sociate_toolbar
You can see if that's the case by doing a search from the toolbar and then looking at the Amazon product links that come up in the sidebar. If they have a "tag=whatever" string in the url, that's their Amazon associate (affiliate) link.
/if that's the case, they pulled that part of their payload after seeing how little such a toolbar earns. It's a joke money-wise.
heh, good thing you posted that - i meant to make a passing reference to it and a few other things and completely forgot. thanks to you, people won't be repeatedly asking me how the toolbar gets onto the PC in the first place (ftp ftw!)
Toolbars Blah they drive me crazy i think the whole idea of toolbars is so open to Highjack its amazing anyone ever downloads the damn things
Toolbars. . . grrrrrrrrrrrrr.
When people install them where I work I always tell them really scary stories about them. Okay, I usually make most of it up, but I really hate toolbars. They get uninstalled whatever, no matter whose toolbar it is, hotbar
Well the Chinese menace is rearing its ugly head. Lo, PG warned us, and it has come to pass. Or something.
Seems to be another Chinese attempt to Control Their? part of the net As it can be used to Monitor a Users day to day Surfing Habits,Chinese Government involement? Would not Surprise me the Chinese Government is also trying to control the Far east Stock market,Football,Gambling,import export you name it....
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