WebberLog

At the office of one of my customers, we recently had a problem with their main intranet application. Several users were telling me that they could no longer login to the system. It’s main window kept on closing on them. After some digging I noticed that all users’ systems were suddenly equipped with the Google toolbar. Didn’t take me long to figure out that it’s pop-up blocker was the thing that stopped the app from working.

Of course, the question was, where did this toolbar come from? It’s not installed as part of the standard workstation layout. Again after some digging we found that Sun’s Java update appeared to install the toolbar.

Seems like nowadays every install or update I do wants to set me up with Google or Yahoo toolbars. Which is cool when I want it, but I think it would be nice if the default for installing was NO instead of yes…