Java update installs Ask.com toolbar, ignoring earlier selection

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Submission + - Java update installs Ask.com toolbar, ignoring earlier selection

Submitted by icknay on Friday February 08, 2013 @03:43PM

icknay writes: There's a surprising array of tricks used by the Oracle Java update tool each time it runs to install the Ask.com toolbar even after it has been declined. It's also interesting to see active work by the browsers to avoid these sort not-what-the-user-intended installs into the browser.

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