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| Webshots and Kiwee Toolbar 14/04/2010 at 20:04 #1121 | |
GeoffM
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After wrongly blaming the wife for installing a Kiwee toolbar which takes over your PC, it turned out that it was Webshots, a desktop photo/calendar application, which had secretly installed it. Apparently there was an option in the setup process which you had to expand and then untick but it's not obvious. The Kiwee toolbar can be removed as described here: http://blog.webshots.com/?p=1285 . Simply using the control panel to add/remove program is not enough since it embeds itself deeply into your PC and re-installs itself at a later date. Very bad idea of Webshots to include it in their setup. SimSig Boss Log in to reply |
| Webshots and Kiwee Toolbar 14/04/2010 at 20:04 #8514 | |
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GeoffM
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After wrongly blaming the wife for installing a Kiwee toolbar which takes over your PC, it turned out that it was Webshots, a desktop photo/calendar application, which had secretly installed it. Apparently there was an option in the setup process which you had to expand and then untick but it's not obvious. The Kiwee toolbar can be removed as described here: http://blog.webshots.com/?p=1285 . Simply using the control panel to add/remove program is not enough since it embeds itself deeply into your PC and re-installs itself at a later date. Very bad idea of Webshots to include it in their setup. SimSig Boss Log in to reply |
| Webshots and Kiwee Toolbar 14/04/2010 at 21:59 #8518 | |
andyb0607
260 posts |
Had a user at work earlier report that they couldn't use IE properly cos they couldn't see much off the webpages! Turned out they had 7 different toolbars installed on there machine! Gave up uninstalling them and rebuilt the workstation! Everyone seems to be adding these toolbars to their software! Log in to reply |
| Webshots and Kiwee Toolbar 19/04/2010 at 21:36 #8653 | |
Lardybiker
771 posts |
A lot of software seems to come with these "toolbars" as options and many probably don't realize what it is they are installing so they don't uncheck it. I suspect its an advertising/revenue thing. Damn annoying if you ask me!
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| Webshots and Kiwee Toolbar 20/04/2010 at 08:52 #8661 | |
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andyb0607
260 posts |
Since when was "realize" spelt with a zee! Someone has been stateside for too long!
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| Webshots and Kiwee Toolbar 20/04/2010 at 13:04 #8665 | |
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clive
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On the contrary, it was good enough for Shakespeare. The OED says: British spelling has always recognized the existence of variant spellings using the suffix -ize/-ise. When American spelling was standardized during the 19th century (mainly through the efforts of the great American lexicographer Noah Webster), the consistent use of -ize was one of the conventions that became established. However, since then, the -ise spellings have become more popular in Britain (and in other English-speaking countries such as Australia), perhaps partly as a reaction against the American custom. Spellings such as organisation would have struck many older British writers as rather French-looking. The Oxford English Dictionary favoured -ize, partly on the linguistic basis that the suffix derives from the Greek suffix -izo, and this was also the style of Encyclopaedia Britannica (even before it was American-owned) and formerly of the Times newspaper. The main advantage of the modern -ise habit? Lazy spellers do not have to remember that there are several important words which cannot properly be spelt with -ize. These include words which are not formed by the addition of the -ize prefix to a stem, but by some other root which happens to end in the same syllable, such as -vise (as in televise), -cise (as in incise), and -prise (as in comprise). The American system resulted in the creeping of z into some other words where it did not originally belong. Writers of American English should be aware of some spellings that are regarded as incorrect in the UK, notably analyze. Log in to reply |
| Webshots and Kiwee Toolbar 20/04/2010 at 16:12 #8672 | |
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UKTrainMan
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Whilst I cannot vouch for it myself since I don't use it, HijackThis ("Trend Micro HijackThis" has been recommended to me in the past as a useful tool to get rid of unwanted rubbish, for example dodgy Internet Explorer browser toolbars, etc. Two links for this program;Trend Micro Website: HijackThis CNET Website: HijackThis Be warned, HijackThis can show you things from your computer registry so if you don't even know what your computer registry is then you need to exercise great caution in using this program as you could potentially cause some serious damage to your computer if you select and delete/remove the wrong thing. One of the things you can do with HijackThis is to create a .txt file of items found during the scan and apparently there are some websites out there that can analyse this log file and give you a general rating on the each entry (each individual item found during the scan) which may be useful, although it has been mentioned to me that it is not always right on each entry so you'd need to again exercise caution. One of these websites is www.hijackthis.de - although I cannot give any assurances to it's safety/reliability/trustworthiness. Hope This Helps Any views and / or opinions expressed by myself are from me personally and do not represent those of any company I either work for or am a consultant for. Log in to reply |