In your case I'd suggest uninstalling the toolbar and undoing its changes (such as to your browser homepages etc.) if the uninstaller fails to revert them. Malware or not, they know that people are used to blindly clicking "Next" or "OK" on any error message or dialog box or installer wizard they see, which is why I personally believe they are unethical in checking the boxes for installation of extra crapware by default. Looks like the offers can be skipped though by " the OpenCandy powered installer from the command-line with /NOCANDY". I had to switch to Custom installation from Express which was selected by default, and even then I had to uncheck all 3 options.Īre OpenCandy or the programs it offers malware? That's a controversial topic so I leave that to you to decide. The offers can be different for each person, so here's what I got:Īs you can see, the behaviour seems to be similar to the toolbar you installed. The newer one in addition also has OpenCandy integrated, which means it offers other third-party software for installation. The older one offered to install Tuneup Utilities 2013, which was selected by default but which you could decline: The older installer was smaller, and although both were digitally signed there was no timestamp: Interestingly, both were version 9.2.2 but something certainly has changed.
I looked into this a bit more and also compared the latest installer to an older one.
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