Charlie wrote:

>
>Open source freed from toolbar
>
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12...ar_row_latest/
>
>But read on.....

"Cnet's Nmap installer was initially detected as a Trojan by BitDefender
and F-Secure, and as a potentially unwanted program by Panda, McAfee and
others, according to an initial report by VirusTotal on Monday. However
by Wednesday, of all the major suppliers of anti-virus software, only
McAfee reported anything amiss."

Nice. NOT.
-9th December 2011 13:04 GMT

"Cluley" is "surprised"... lol...

This *is* a monetized deal!

"Gordon Lyon (aka Fyodor), the developer of Nmap, cried foul over the
way the toolbar was foisted on users. The toolbar - which changes users'
browsing experience, sets the browser's home page to MSN and makes Bing
the default search engine - was also offered to consumers downloading
the popular VLC media player software. Fyodor also alleged that
Download.com's installer violates Nmap's copyright.

Within hours of venting his anger online, Microsoft got in touch with
Fyodor saying, as he puts it, that they "didn't know they were
sponsoring Cnet to trojan open-source software, and that they have
stopped doing it". At around the same time the Nmap installer available
from Download.com switched to punting "special offers" from Cnet, and
after various other changes it eventually offered a clean install, at
least in the case of Nmap."



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