[triadtechtalk] Re: Portable Program Question
- From: armando barreiro <armandobarreiro@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: triadtechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 19:27:07 -0700 (PDT)
I install MSE in all the systems that come to me or that I build and MSE is the
only one that I use in the two Windows boxes that I still have.
Armando
--- On Fri, 6/1/12, brian <brian99@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: brian <brian99@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [triadtechtalk] Re: Portable Program Question
To: triadtechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Friday, June 1, 2012, 1:01 PM
Armando,
I didn't mean to convey that the listing I posted is things
I have on my computer; it was just a list of programs that
install tool bars.
It could be used by anyone was wondering if a particular
programs bundled a tool bar with it.
Fortunately I did a quick view of the items on the list and
don't have any of them!
http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm
I had used AVG for a number of years, but I switched to
Avira a while ago (I think you recommended it at that time)
After you had mentioned Microsoft
Security Essential in a posting a few weeks ago I did installed
it.
I kept Avira and switch between the two
deactivation the other while using one of them at a time to
evaluate.
Then I saw a review of all the free anti virus programs for
2012 and AVG was on the top again.
Fondly remembering AVG, I then kept Microsoft Security
Essentials deactivated, deleted Avira, and started using
AVG.
I had since noticed that in the Windows Secrets Newsletter •
Issue 326 • 2012-02-16, Is your free AV tool a ‘resource
pig?’
Fred Langa personally recommends MSE. ( http://tinyurl.com/6wd6wj2
)
He said in the posting:
"For me — for now — nothing in these numbers would
alter my recommendation — and personal use — of
Microsoft Security Essentials."
I still have MSE installed, but it is inactive and
only use if needed.
Both of them are much easier to use than Avira.
Since I can only keep AVG inactive until the next boot, I
don't want to switch MSE
unless you think there
is a big difference in the two.
Your advise would be
appreciated.
Brian
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On 6/1/2012 1:55 AM, armando barreiro wrote:
Re list of installed
stuff, a quick browse over the list you submitted leads me
to think that there are things installed that you don't
need.
In the first place, I use but Microsoft Security
Essentials only, though I did install McAfee's links
security advisor toolbar. No need for Zone Alarm, IMO, at
all.
To check your list of stuff see
<http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm>
Best wishes,
Armando
--- On Thu, 5/31/12, brian <brian99@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
From: brian <brian99@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [triadtechtalk] Re: Portable Program Question
To: triadtechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thursday, May 31, 2012, 11:01 PM
Howard, Chuck, & Armando,
Thanks for all the great tips.
"just deleting all the files. If you use
a registry cleaner"
Howard, I had stopped using a registry cleaner
since I thought W7 runs it periodically.
But that is sure good to know I can delete and
then scan the registry
!
"unwise.exe "
I had wondered for a long time what Unwise.exe
was-- it sounded nefarious!
But that sure got rid of Sotonic-Eng7!
I had used uninstall but never unwise.exe
"If it's listed in your
installed programs then it's not portable"
Armando, I had been following that line of
thinking but Softonic wasn't listed in
Add/Remove.
I think something I may had done back a while
ago could have eliminated some installed
programs from the
Add/Remove list because they were also not
listed in other uninstaller apps I check.
"all sorts of
rogue junk that gets added on
when you install lots of
programs"
Chuck, I spent much of the AM checking for tool
bars; I have a couple that were unwanted and
deleted them.
I must have been paying attention when
installing programs and unchecked nearly tool
bar options that had that option before
installing the program.
I was surprised that I didn't have a problem.
It is nice to learn a few more tricks.
And although I may not know if a program is
portable for sure, I know how to delete it and
compensate for left overs with a registry scan.
NOTE:
For anyone checking on their tool bars they have
I have included a listing below.
Thanks for the help again.
Brian
=================
The list is reproduced here from Calenderof
updates forum, with a few edits.
4 shared Desktop - Toolbar.
Ad-Aware - Google Chrome
Adobe Flash Player - Google Toolbar
Adobe Reader - eBay Desktop
Advanced SystemCare formerly known as Iobit
advanced one care - Yahoo Toolbar (selecting
no will still do changes on the system)
Aero Fox addon for Firefox - Ask toolbar.
Any Video Converter – Google Chrome.
AnVir TaskManager - Dealio Toolbar,
RegistryCleanerPro and some other third party
applications.
AOL Instant Messenger - AOL Toolbar
Apple’s Software Updater - Safari Browser,
QuickTime, iTunes
Applian FLV Player - Yahoo Toolbar
Auslogics Disk Defrag - Ask Toolbar.
Auslogics Duplicate File Finder - Ask Toolbar.
Auslogics Registry Defrag - Ask Toolbar
Auslogics System Information - Ask Toolbar
Avast - Google Chrome but not pre-selected.
AVG LinkScanner, AVG Free, AVG 9 - Yahoo
Toolbar
BitComet - Google Toolbar
BitTorrent 6.1.2/6.3 - Ask Toolbar
BurnAware Free - Ask Toolbar.
CCleaner (standard installer) - Yahoo Toolbar
CDBurnerXP - Ask toolbar, SpywareTerminator
and Uniblue Registry Booster.
ChrisTV Lite - ChrisTV Toolbar/Relevant
Knowledge adware.
ClamWin - Ask Toolbar
Corel Paint Shop Pro X - Yahoo! Toolbar but
not pre-checked.
CPU-Z - Ask Toolbar
CSmenu - Ask Toolbar.
Cyberlink BD Advisor - Google Toolbar.
Cyberlink PowerDVD 8 - Google Toolbar and BETA
of Moovielive
Daemon Tools - Search tool and sponsor ad
module
Defraggler - Yahoo Toolbar
DexTop - RegistryBooster.
Digsby instant messenger – Yahoo Toolbar,
MyFreeze NetAssistant for Firefox, Smart Shopper,
WeatherBug, Regsitry Power Cleaner, Relevant
Knowledge Toolbar, changes browser homepgae to
My Freeze. Additionally, if uses your bandwidth to
crawl the web for stock market research.
DivX - Yahoo Toolbar/Norton Security Scan
Driver Sweeper - Open Candy.
Duplicate Cleaner - Bing Toolbar and Search
Helper Extension in Firefox.
DVDx - Ask Toolbar
FLV Player - Yahoo! Toolbar.
FormatFactory - ebay shorcut and/or Ask
toolbar.
Foxit Pdf Reader - Ask Toolbar and ebay
shortcut in desktop
Freecommander - ebay shortcuts.
Free Download Manager - prechecked and bundles
Software Informer
Free YouTube to MP3 Converter - DVDSoft
Toolbar, search engine.
Game House Installers - Google Desktop Search
and/or Google Toolbar for IE.
GameVance Installer - Ask Toolbar and Weather
Channel Desktop
GetGo Download Manager - Ask Toolbar.
Glary Utilities - Ask Toolbar
GOM Player - Ask Toolbar.
Google Earth - Pre checked Google Toolbar
installation or Chrome browser.
Google Talk - no addon but will change default
search setting of IE
Hotspot Shield - Hotspot Shield Community
Toolbar (by default) from Conduit.
ICQ - ICQ Toolbar
IE7Pro - Offering ProgSense. Installed Grab
Pro Toolbar (using Ask search).
IM ToolPack - Crawler toolbar.
ImgBurn - Ask Toolbar and Uniblue Desktop
icons.
IMMUNET - Ask Toolbar.
Incredimail - MyStart Homepage and Search Page
IOBit Security 360 - IObit Toolbar.
IOBit Smart Defrag - Yahoo Toolbar/Search
Settings.
IObit Advanced SystemCare - Yahoo Toolbar.
IrfanView - Google Toolbar for IE and Google
Desktop Search
Isobuster - Ask Toolbar
IZArc - RegistryBooster.
Logitech Setpoint - Logitech Yahoo! Toolbar
ManyCam Virtual Webcam - Ask Toolbar and
Norton Security Scan.
Maxathon 2 - Facebook Sidebar Plugin
McAfee Site Advisor update - Yahoo! default
browser search
MediaCoder - Registry Reviver.
MessengerPlus! Live - Ask Toolbar.
Miro - Ask Toolbar.
MP3 WMA Converter - Yahoo Search and Delio
Comparsion Shopping Toolbar
MooO Connection Watcher - AutoComplete Pro
MyPhoneExplorer - offering ebay shortcuts
Nero Free, Nero Burning Rom or Nero 9
Essentials and Nero BurnLite 10 - Ask Toolbar
Norton products - Ask Search in Norton
toolbar. No option to remove and it was pushed by
including in a Norton patch.
Office Live add-in - includes Silverlight as
add-on
OpenCandy - offering third party software.
Report says that even if you do not install the
3rd party software, there is modification in the
registry, files and will add tracking cookies.
There's also Conduit Toolbar in the page
PalTalk - Ask Toolbar. There's a nag screen
prompting to upgrade from free to paid edition. No
way to turn off the nag.
Panda Cloud AV - Yahoo Search Assistant and a
pre-checked toolbar.
PC Tools Spyware Doctor - Google Toolbar
PC Tools Firewall Plus - Google Toolbar and
Threatfire
PC Tools ThreatFire - Google Toolbar.
PC Wizard 2010 - Ask Toolbar.
PDFCreator - Yahoo Toolbar. Also offers
PDFforger Toolbar and Widgi Toolbar (mybrowser
bar).
PDF-XChangeViewer - Ask Toolbar.
Perfect Utilities - Relevant Knowledge (RK)
toolbar
PhotoFiltre - Ask Toolbar.
Picpick - Ask Toolbar.
Quick Media Converter HD - Ask Toolbar, Ask
Search, Ask Homepage (by default).
Quicksys RegDefrag - Ask Toolbar.
RapidTyping - Bing Toolbar.
Recuva - Yahoo toolbar
RealPlayer - Google Chrome pre-checked.
Risingware Fast Start Genie - installs Fast
Start Genie and Risingware i-Desktop.
Shockwave Player - Norton Security Scan or
Google Toolbar
SIW (System Information for Windows) - Crawler
Toolbar. The installer of SIW (free version) will
offer SnagIt (report here)or PC Tools Registry
Mechanic (report here) but not pre-checked.
Skype - Google Toolbar and Browser Highlighter
Spiderplayer - Bing Toolbar.
Spyware Terminator - Web security guard,
Crawler
StarBurn - installs StarPort DVD-ROM Emulator
and SaveTubeVideo tools
Sun Java RE (online installer) - Google
Toolbar / Live Search for Windows Toolbar. There's
report too that Carbonite Backup is being offered
(depends on your location)
Sun Java - OpenOffice.org
Thoosje Sidebar - Amazon or eBay toolbar.
Trillian - Ask Toolbar, Weather Channel
Desktop and RegistryBooster
Unlocker 1.90 - eBay Desktop shortcuts and
Bing Toolbar (with 30 seconds waiting for
proceeding to install if you'll uncheck Bing
Toolbar install).
uTorrent - Ask Toolbar.
Vdownloader Plus - Ask Toolbar and eBay
shortcuts.
Veoh media player - Yahoo toolbar, search
engine change & search protection
VSO Image Resizer - Ask Toolbar.
WeatherBug - Ask Toolbar.
Webroot SpySweeper - Ask Toolbar
Wildfire CD Ripper - Download Energy Torrent
toolbar
Winamp - Winamp Toolbar
Windows Live Installer - Windows Live Toolbar
and Sign-in Assistant
Windows SteadyState - Windows Live Toolbar
Winzip - RegistryBooster and Google Toolbar
xplorer2Lite - Conduit toolbar
XP-Antispy - eBay Shortcuts.
YaHoo! Instant Messenger - YaHoo! toolbar,
with ‘YaHoo! Search Protection’ and homepage
change to YaHoo!
ZoneAlarm - Conduit toolbar. Search powered by
Google.
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On 5/31/2012 9:01 AM, Howard wrote:
From: ChasM49@xxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012
9:41 AM
To: triadtechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [triadtechtalk] Re:
Portable Program Question
Brian
... I agree totally with Chuck in OK!!!
If a computer comes to me for repair, I
go through the add/remove programs and
remove ALL toolbars.
If
there are any tool bars on the computer
that are not in the add/remove, I simply
delete them and run my registry cleaner
to remove the stuff left in the
registry. Many of them read your
keystrokes and send the info back! They
also eventually add a lot of bars across
your browser and take up a lot of
viewing area on your monitor. They cause
more problems than some viruses.
Try
to stay away from installing as a lot of
them piggyback on other installs and
need to be unchecked to avoid installing
them.
Howard
Brian keep in mind there
are all sorts of rogue junk that
gets added on when you install lots
of programs.... most of them are
near useless and when comes to toll
bar helpers I dump them totally have
no use nor want any jerk outfit
taking my control for their advert
trash bag junk. And if after
deleting the toolbar trash a
particular program wont work to me
it simply means came form the
garbage can since needs trash to
make money for the company.Keeo\p it
simple stupid still is my game plan
and I will not allow or keep any of
the rash drive by add-ons that get
stuck in with lots of programs.....
and near all the big outfits sucker
you into it...... ask your self...
how many times have you seen the
Google junk added in when installing
programs? to me way too many and I
do use Google but not as a toolbar
and the rest of the junk it wants to
add so they can make money.To me
seems you have been out searching
the dumpster's and finding so called
needed programs that have dumped
stuff on you unknowingly. keep in
mind there are no more free
lunches...... its all advert trash
generally.......... chuck in Ok
No virus
found in this message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 2012.0.2178 / Virus Database: 2425/5036
- Release Date: 05/31/12
No virus
found in this message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 2012.0.2178 / Virus Database: 2425/5038 - Release Date:
06/01/12
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