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Is ((Alot Toolbar)) a virus or spyware?

cuz today i had gotten it and i took it off but i never download it

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Alot Toolbar (or AlotToolbar) is Adware browser toolbar. Alot Toolbar can monitor user's surfing activity or searches in internet. Details of those kind of activities can be transmitted to internet hackers and the hackers can transmit back malware, Trojans or even viruses to users. Hackers can send back in a form of pop-up ads or even another toolbar links. Alot Toolbar can secretly install in users computer by them self without their permission or knowledge by using browser security holes or it can come with a halp of other malware. Alot Toolbar can resist users attempts to delete it and can use hidden reinstaller programs to reinstall itself after it has been removed so it is very hard to delete it manually. Remove Alot Toolbar as soon as possible from your computer system!

    How to remove Alot Toolbar

    http://www.pcthreat.com/parasitebyid-6929en.html

  • 5 years ago

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Consider this: most of toolbars(90%) are adwares.

    It's rare when sometoolbar is completely free of any bad thing out there.

    For me, most of toolbars are useless.

    Here why the reason: Firefox has already a safe search engine that connects to many search engines(that is what most of toolbars offers to be installed).

    I just say, hey, I already have the option to search here, so why I should install another toolbar that let's me search on Nameofbrand?

    Let the mind choose where I wanna search something ;)

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Anything that installs itself on your computer without you knowing IS BAD! it's most likely adware or Spyware even if you think the toolbar is cool and helpful.

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Alot Appbar

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

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  • 5 years ago

    Very interested to hear the answers to this as well

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    I was wondering much the same thing

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