Безопасен ли spigot.com?

Spigot is useless. Their toolbars are just malware. I have installed them once, and they scattered malware all over my drive. When I plugged in a USB, the malware would spread on and the other computer would get infected. When malicious toolbar is installed, these symptoms happen: Ads suddenly pop up, even if you do not have the internet running The computer lags to the point that you have to shut it down My friends get weird emails to install Spigot toolbar (supposedly sent by me) The data stream is consistantly on, and it sends user info to one of their servers.

Installs difficult to remove hijacking software to your browsers in a devious and deceptive way (e.g. "slicksavings" and "shopping assistant"). Changes settings on your browsers that are difficult to reverse (e.g. Yahoo search engine). Pretends that they have been installed with your explicit and properly informed consent.

Spigot is a bastard company, plain and simple. The fact that they're allowed to do what they do, and without legal ramification, is really unfortunate. Yahoo should pursue legal action for defamation as, since Yahoo is the mask they use to collect your data, many of us will no longer allow Yahoo to interact with our computers on any level. Unscrupulous and unfortunate.

Insidious. It's very easy to click the wrong button and allow installation if you're not paying VERY close attention. A child would be even more likely to unintentionally install this. The Searchme product offered by Spigot is nothing less than a browser hijack that adds an extension to most of your browsers (Safari, Firefox, and Chrome on OS X 10.7 confirmed). It purports to change your default search engine to Yahoo, but what it really does is send your searches through their servers first, collecting whatever information you send through. Sneaky and underhanded.