Java update installs Yahoo Toolbar

[condorito]

Pretty f'n sneaky I'll tell you what. Uninstalling.. Ha Ha!

[Daifne]

There's a box you can uncheck in the installer to avoid it...

[condorito]

They made it very inconspicuous then, because I honestly didn't notice. In any case, I hate software pushers.

[Daifne]

I do, too. The most annoying one I've seen lately is the Norton scanner that installs with Shockwave (and I think some Google things) if you're not careful. It's uninstaller doesn't work correctly. You have to jump through all sorts of hoops to get rid of it. Nasty thing (not just because it's Norton...)

[the-edmeister]

Does the Norton un-installer that comes with any Norton application ever work completely?



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[Daifne]

Not really, and not at all with this Norton scanner thing. The Norton Removal Tools doesn't even get this bit of garbage.

[condorito]

^ Ha ha ha. That's something! What kind of crappy coders does symantec hire?

[Daifne]

Remembered the full name now. It's the Norton Security Scan and it installs mainly with Shockwave. The fix for fully uninstalling it was found on page 2 of this topic in the Norton Community posted by Dave_Coleman who is an Administrator, and I believe, a Symantec employee. They do admit that it's a bug: http://community.norton.com/norton/boar ... ing&page=2

But, Huh?

After some research, it has been discovered that this issue is actually a defect in NSS, and not a fault of its design.

Defect, but not a fault of it's design? What?

I see that they have also now put the instructions on their support pages: http://www.symantec.com/norton/support/ ... N&ln=en_US

[Ngamer01]

I dunno if something has happened, but I've had Firefox hang on three different computers (a PC and two laptops) when trying to download and verify Java SE 6 U 14. I had to get the Java update off Sun Microsystems's site for all three of my computers.

I've also recently updated Adobe Acrobat and Quicktime on the computers, though I have no idea if the freezes are due to the updates of those plugins. I would need a clean profile to do some testing, but I don't have the time to test right now. =/

[mightyglydd]

See here re Java.
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1293885
And here:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r225395 ... -Java-link
It seems to happen with FF 3.0.11 not 3.0.10.

[Ngamer01]

Thanks for the links, mightyglydd. I'll go follow along over there to avoid crossposting here.

[sremick]

You used to be able to get the offline installer without the bundled toolbar if you downloaded it from java.sun.com instead of java.com. From java.sun.com you'd get a version of the .exe with a "-p" suffix which signified that it didn't have the toolbar bundle.

Unfortunately that no longer seems to be the case. Anyone know where you can still get the -p version of the latest Java?