Yahoo Toolbar Targets More Than Spyware

It seems like every search engine is releasing a toolbar of sorts. Yahoo's toolbar seperates itself from the rest by detecting both spyware and adware by default.

“The Sunnyvale, Calif., company on Wednesday took the beta tag off the Yahoo Toolbar with Anti-Spy and changed its default scanning settings to detect both spyware and adware by default, Yahoo officials told eWEEK.com during the Search Engines Strategies conference here.

As reported after Anti-Spy went into beta in May, Yahoo Inc. received criticism from anti-spyware advocates for differentiating between spyware and adware by automatically checking for spyware programs but requiring users to select a box to also scan for adware. “

Toolbars help increase the search engines traffic by offering services that link directly back to their home page. Recently other search engines including MSN and Google have ramped up marketing efforts to make sure their toolbars are on your desktop. Just recently we noticed that the Google toolbar comes preloaded on Sony’s new VAIO laptops.

Read more about the Yahoo toolbar at eWeek.