Il vous est déjà certainement arrivé de devoir décocher certaines options proposant d’ajouter toolbars (barres d’outils), raccourcis Internet ou autres programmes supplémentaires en plus du logiciel désiré.

Le tout sans réel lien avec le programme principal et même parfois sans la possibilité de refuser ces installations complémentaires…

Il ne s’agit pas véritablement de spyware ni adware, mais souvent de sponsors qui permettent par exemple de financer un logiciel gratuit que vous auriez téléchargé.

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Calendar of Updates actualise une liste de ces logiciels qui incluent, d’office ou non, ces suppléments.

Vous pouvez voir la liste complète à cette adresse (en anglais)

Extrait :

  • 4 shared Desktop – Toolbar
  • Ad-Aware – Google Chrome
  • Adobe Flash Player – Google Toolbar
  • Adobe Reader – eBay Desktop
  • Advanced SystemCare (Iobit advanced one care) – Yahoo Toolbar
  • Aero Fox addon for Firefox – Ask toolbar
  • Any Video Converter – Google Chrome
  • AnVir TaskManager – Dealio Toolbar, RegistryCleanerPro
  • 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
  • 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, Uniblue Registry Booster
  • ChrisTV Lite – ChrisTV Toolbar/Relevant Knowledge adware
  • ClamWin – Ask Toolbar
  • Corel Paint Shop Pro X – Yahoo! Toolbar
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Panda Cloud AV – Yahoo Search Assistant
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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