Have you ever found your Web browser loaded with mysterious toolbars out of the blue, and wondered where they came from? I see this all the time. One day someone’s browser is humming along as always, ...

You would think that in 2014, we’d have put all the web shenanigans of the 1990s and early aughts behind us, but you’d be wrong—at least for Windows users ...

In the not-too-distant past, search toolbars were risky specialty add-ons offered by Internet marketing mavens. Users who installed search toolbars often were granting permission without knowing it to ...

Microsoft took what appeared to be a shot at Oracle’s wallet this month when it switched on search-and-destroy in its security software for older versions of the Ask browser toolbar, which has long ...

Fighting for icon space on the desktop is so 2001. The new frontier on a virgin PC is the browser, and Internet companies like Google are jostling for space on the browsers of new PCs. Dell and Google ...

Aside from a brief period in 2000, when Google Toolbar added things that are now standard in browsers, I can't think of anyone who *willingly* uses a browser toolbar. I know many, many people who ...

Searching for data on a PC used to be a series of isolated activities. Users needed one or more computer-based software utilities to hunt through the hard drive for specific files containing keywords.

New browser toolbars and extensions are pretending to be legitimate releases from well-known companies in order to install spyware and keyloggers. Browser beware!<BR><BR>Story.

Here's a way to maybe keep your audience engaged with your Web site even when they're not on it: offer them a branded browser toolbar. Conduit's newish Community Toolbar feature makes it easy to build ...