MySearch Bar is it spyware or not? If you use Spybot S&D it will protect against and detect MySearch Bar as spyware. SpywareBlaster and SpywareGuard from
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/index.html will also block Active x controls and tracking cookies from MySearch websites. But some of the most popular spyware removal software will not detect or protect against MySearch Bar including Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE, Webroot SpySweeper and PC Tools Spyware Doctor. When I found MySearch Bar installed on my computer after scanning with Spybot S&D, I wonder why SpySweeper did not detect or protect against it. I wrote to customer support at Webroot and ask them. They said that MySearch Bar did not fall into their guidelines for spyware. I also tried to contact Lavasoft several times about MySearch Bar and they never replied to me. PC Tools replied and also said that MySearch Bar did not fit into their category for spyware. However PestPatrol and Microsoft AntiSpyware along with Spybot S&D do detect MySearch Bar as spyware and will remove it. You can also find MySearch Bar on download.com at
http://www.download.com/My-Search-w-...-10217612.html After they adopted the NO Adware, No Exceptions Policy.
So the question still remains, is MySearch Bar spyware? And if it is why is these other programs not detecting and protecting us from them? Webroots reply said that it could be easily removed with the Control Panel Add or Remove Programs, that is a load of crap. It would not uninstall that way. Spybot S&D did remove it from my system.
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