Sneaky Toolbar Hijacks Browsers

This practice is reprehensible and should be outlawed.

This news-clipping describes the Xupiter hijacking software and provides some links pertaining to how to deal with it.

"It's the most evil thing on the Internet, according to some of its victims. But it's not a virus, a scam or a raunchy porn site.

It's a browser toolbar that some swear is doing "drive-by downloads" -- installing itself without users' permission -- then taking over their systems and making it impossible to uninstall."