On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Erik Goldoff <[email protected]> wrote:
> footnote, from comments on the sourceforge.net site regarding PDFCreator :
>
> Formerly a big fan running older version. Was not happy to find out, upon
> downloading the most current version, that it contains unavoidable spyware.
The reviewers saying that are idiots. (This is the Internet, after all.)
PDFCreator's installer does bundle an *optional* advertising toolbar
(Yahoo's, IIRC). A panel of the install wizard is dedicated to this
fact, complete with a screenshot of the toolbar, and a checkbox.
Un-check the box and you don't get the toolbar. The turnips clicking
"Next" without looking are getting the toolbar.
While I'm certainly no fan of bundled adware, PDFCreator is hardly
the only one doing so ("Download Windows Search to improve history and
favorites results"), and you can easily opt-out.
-- Ben
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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