Microsoft's good deed for the day: browser-hijacking Ask Toolbar gets the banhammer on Windows

This is awesome news!

It is brilliant news Nic. After all these years hearing complaints about it and now it is taken care of, it is about time.

I have a quick question on this. Since we have Webroot installed, I would assume (I know that is a bad thing) that Webroot basically turns off Microsoft Security Tools (Windows Defender, Security Essentials, depending on version of Windows) and controls these things in a far superior way. Now if that assumption is correct then is Webroot going to tag this also from this point forward? Or is this for the people who use just the bare minimum Windows security?
 
I also have to wonder how they are going to tag these, especially on third party browsers. I can kinda see them doing this within IE but when Chrome, Firefox and opera are involved I can some some issues. I'm also curious on how Oracle is going to respond to this. Java by nature is a HUGE risk on a PC and it has always been best use policy to keep Java up to date, but with this restriction aren't they basically shooting themselves in the foot. I mean since Microsoft is doing this Tagging, Java will not be updatable as long as that toolbar option is present.
 
I love security but a little common sense can be a much better weapon then this proposed action. Unless of course I am missing something here.
 
 

Geek.com has a great article on this. Kinda recapping what has been said already but adds some information that was missing.
 
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Thanks for posting this article.
 
This is a good thing for sure.  
 
Personally I don't use any toolbars and if I download one accidentally, I remove it immediately.
 
Dave