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The A LOT News Toolbar may be just the thing for news junkies looking to replace their existing newsreader. Despite one oddity, this Internet Explorer add-on is nicely designed and avoids the cluttered, amateurishly cobbled-together appearance of many toolbars.
The main focus for this toolbar is news. We like the headline scroll incorporated into its design, plus the News Search and News Room buttons. We also liked that the latter allowed us to choose a preferred news site from a drop-down list, including CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, USA Today, NPR, BBC, and others. The button for a link to Writing Software seems a bit anomalous on this toolbar: clicking it took us to a site selling software for grammar and writing.
Still, those who avidly follow the news should be able to forgive the one inexplicable link tacked onto to this otherwise clean, functional, and free toolbar.
Publisher's Description
From ALOT:
The ALOT News Toolbar is a free toolbar that lets you navigate your favorite news sites and search top news stories with the following features: one-click access to web searches powered by Google, the ability to easily search the latest headline news and top stories, quick access to online local, national and international newspapers and magazines, and a scrolling feed of breaking news.
What's new in this version: Version 2.5.9 includes various content changes.
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All versions:
2.8 starsout of 5 votes
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Current version:
1.3 starsout of 3 votes
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"Added without intent, unable to delete."
Version: ALOT Toolbar 2.5.9
Pros
Minimum usage shows little to offfer.
Cons
No information available to delete!!!! Program not asked for, not ordered and unable to delete. Two detailed e-mails on their site asking for help, never answered. Six phone calls to the NY office yielded one opportunity to leave message, still unanswered, and five no phone answer at all. This is over the last 30 days.
Summary
Need an answer on how to get rid of this invasive program,supposedly required of product presentations on line or e-male
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"It can't get worse than this by ALOT!"
Version: ALOT Toolbar 2.5.9
Pros
The writers of this program are good at fooling children into download a useless program!
Cons
Painful to remove an absolutely worthless program!
Summary
Avoid at all costs!
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"How annoying is Alot? A lot!"
Version: ALOT Toolbar 2.5.9
Pros
The one good thing I can say about it is that the Alot Toolbar is not technically a virus or malware. It preys upon unsophisticated computer users, fooling them into installing something they don't need.
Cons
This toolbar keeps getting installed by accident on the computers in the lab I administer. It adds a bunch of useless buttons to the toolbar, reducing the space for actual browsing. To add insult to injury, it changes the homepage without asking.
Summary
While not technically malware, the Alot Toolbar is mostly a scam. It makes itself easy to install accidentally by non-tech savvy people (such as the seniors who use the lab I run) but almost impossible for the same people to remove. It's main purpose is not to be useful to the end user, but to show advertisements. Personally, I think Google, Yahoo!, and Bing should together refuse to pay advertisers who get clicks through dubious ethics like this. Cutting off the revenue source for Alot will make the job of volunteer administrators like myself much easier.
