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jdh
May 2nd, 2007, 07:27 AM
Yahoo toolbar for Firefox is an extension for Firefox

The anti spy is a separate download that you get by clicking on the anti spy icon on the Yahoo toolbar in Firefox.

After I downloaded the anti-spy I made an short cut icon to run it OUTSIDE of Firefox. The name of the program to make a shortcut for is ypsr.exe

I disabled the Yahoo toolbar after installing the anti-spy. I don't have much use for it and it slows down the start up of Firefox for me on an old 500Mhz AMD K6 on dial up.

The only reason I mention this anti spy at all is that it did find a couple of things that my other free anti-spy programs (Spybot S&D and Ad-Aware) did not.

Toolbar download at http://toolbar.yahoo.com

DH

jdh
May 19th, 2007, 02:42 PM
Yahoo toolbar for Firefox is an extension for Firefox

The anti spy is a separate download that you get by clicking on the anti spy icon on the Yahoo toolbar in Firefox.

After I downloaded the anti-spy I made an short cut icon to run it OUTSIDE of Firefox. The name of the program to make a shortcut for is ypsr.exe

I disabled the Yahoo toolbar after installing the anti-spy. I don't have much use for it and it slows down the start up of Firefox for me on an old 500Mhz AMD K6 on dial up.

The only reason I mention this anti spy at all is that it did find a couple of things that my other free anti-spy programs (Spybot S&D and Ad-Aware) did not.

Toolbar download at http://toolbar.yahoo.com

DH

Updates to cover new threats appear to be quite seldom, so I doubt this freeware is worth installing when Spybot S&D and Ad-Aware (Lavasoft) are still free.

DH

Judy G. Russell
May 19th, 2007, 09:45 PM
Updates to cover new threats appear to be quite seldom, so I doubt this freeware is worth installing when Spybot S&D and Ad-Aware (Lavasoft) are still free.That's what I figured. Thanks for the report.