I just downloaded Adaware yesterday, so I assume it's the latest one.

But I just found on Showbehind's web site that there is a way to opt-out. Thank goodness. I downloaded and ran their remove program. We'll see if it works.
But I'm still disapointed in Google for installing this crap in the first place.

But I'm still disapointed in Google for installing this crap in the first place.

IT IS NOT FROM GOOGLE! >

Spybot-S&D http://beam.to/spybotsd

it should nail it paxx...

Kona, I was speaking of the showbehind, not google...


SHOWBEHIND OPT-OUT FOR DOWNLOAD MEMBERS.
Thank you for allowing us to display Showbehind Advertisements to you. As Promised in the FREEWARE software program you or someone who has access to your computer downloaded, you can stop ...
www.showbehind.com/opt-out.html - 83%
Result found by: HotBot, MSN Web Search, AltaVista

www.showbehind.com/adremove.exe
http://www.showbehind.com/adremove.exe

IP I was just trying to point out that showbehind does not come with Google.

Hum, I can't find anything anywhere about Google installing Showbehind. Maybe it's not it. But it's really strange though, because it even seems to me that the popunders stoped when I disabled the toolbar. Anyway. The only other thing it can be is that it installed with some activeX thing from a website. I like to play online games, so maybe it installed itself with one of those games? I guess it's possible, but I went to those online game sites, and I see nothing regarding Showbehind either.

I dunno. Anyway, I think I got rid of it. That's the main thing.

What's the bet that the Google bar just enabled the seeing of the pop-under.....which was installed via another proggy....and disabling Google therefore also 'hid' the pop-under/s....

I personally think the google toolbar sells your cookies to other companies who use google indirectly to give you those ads. I installed Google Toolbar & removed it within days because of all the pop-ups, unders, overs...blah,blah,blah and adware that suddenly started appearing on my machine and I religiously run ad-aware & Spy-bot and use norton auto protect & personal Firewall. I'm kinda sensitive to this stuff because I have to deal with it all the time at work when people call me and say their machine is running poorly only to find out they have downloaded & installed Google Toolbar, Weatherbug, Webshots desktop and they get that stupid Gator junk!

I had an issue with adware on my machine and it was activated by Google toolbar for some reason.

I forgot what it was but it was in a thread I posted somewhere.

Anyway, a visit to some site gave me the ability to go to the registry and take it out myself (what ever it was causing the pop up and unders)

Now Google toolbar works fine.

(BTW it might be a program you downloaded and removed but it left you a present... AdWare)

6. Google's toolbar is spyware:
With the advanced features enabled, Google's free toolbar for Explorer phones home with every page you surf, and yes, it reads your cookie too. Their privacy policy confesses this, but that's only because Alexa lost a class-action lawsuit when their toolbar did the same thing, and their privacy policy failed to explain this. Worse yet, Google's toolbar updates to new versions quietly, and without asking. This means that if you have the toolbar installed, Google essentially has complete access to your hard disk every time you connect to Google (which is many times a day). Most software vendors, and even Microsoft, ask if you'd like an updated version. But not Google. Any software that updates automatically presents a massive security risk.
Taken from this link...http://www.google-watch.org/bigbro.html

I like the google search for default search, instead of MSN. I don't know how, but I had it for awhile, and then it switched back to MSN. I wanted it back but I didn't trust the toolbar, so I went looking. Here is a link to a tool that will make google your default search engine. It is not on the top part of the page (that is to make google your home page, but at the bottom.

http://www.google.com/options/defaults.html
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