I've downloaded Foxit Reader and could not find the malware. I followed the link of the prev poster and saw that Foxit responded that they removed the Ask.com malware when they became aware of it. My avast! firewall automatically created a rule for Ask.com when installing Foxit Reader last week without the toolbar ever being mentioned during setup. Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.86.184.60 ( talk) 00:47, 20 July 2010 (UTC) Still contains malware. This is really something people should be warned about. What's more, the options for installing this intrusive, stealthed add-on are presented in an unusually convoluted, unintuitive way-so that even if the user clears the checkboxes for installing the add-on, then clicks the highlighed "I Accept" button (on the same screen), the add-on is installed anyway.Īnyway, I'm not just being dramatic. ![]() Hides itself-from both Add/Remove Programs, and in the user's file system-so it's nearly impossible for the average user to uninstall.Locks the user's Internet settings so they can't change these back.Sets the user's homepage to a big Ask.Com page.Sets the user's default search engine to Ask.Com.The bundled Ask.Com software now actually hijacks the user's default browser, doing the following (which I'm repeating here from the article, in case it's subsequently edited out): ![]()
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