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Is it dangerous, and what should i do?

ti 13. marraskuuta 2007 03:23:00 — wehaveitall

Okay, I have had a toolbar on conduit for an incredibly long time. I saw conduit.com was considered very unsafe in privacy and so were the websites allowing u to download the toolbar such as ourtoolbar.com Before conduit didnt have this rating and ourtoolbar.com was only yellow. Now I'm concerned, because me and 11 other people have now downloaded my toolbar. First of all, is it really unsafe? If it is, what should i do to fix my computer and save anything that could have been seen?

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re:Is it dangerous, and what should i do?

ti 13. marraskuuta 2007 12:27:47 — Sami

I'm not sure if it's exactly dangerous, but I do recall Conduit (formerly EffectiveBrand) toolbars having some privacy issues in the past. I believe that's the reason they were banned from the Mozilla Add-ons website a while back, for example:

http://www.google.com/search?q=mozilla+add-ons+eff...

It looks like the toolbars still collect statistics "regarding usage of toolbar features" and send the data to Conduit. I haven't personally tried their software, but many of our users seem to feel quite strongly about the company.