Malware or not, they know that people are used to blindly clicking "Next" or "OK" on any error message or dialog box or installer wizard they see, which is why I personally believe they are unethical in checking the boxes for installation of extra crapware by default. Looks like the offers can be skipped though by " the OpenCandy powered installer from the command-line with /NOCANDY". I had to switch to Custom installation from Express which was selected by default, and even then I had to uncheck all 3 options.Īre OpenCandy or the programs it offers malware? That's a controversial topic so I leave that to you to decide. The offers can be different for each person, so here's what I got:Īs you can see, the behaviour seems to be similar to the toolbar you installed. The newer one in addition also has OpenCandy integrated, which means it offers other third-party software for installation. The older one offered to install Tuneup Utilities 2013, which was selected by default but which you could decline: The older installer was smaller, and although both were digitally signed there was no timestamp: Interestingly, both were version 9.2.2 but something certainly has changed. I looked into this a bit more and also compared the latest installer to an older one.
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