Publisher's Description
From Ask.com:
Ask Toolbar lets you perform a search from wherever you are on the Web. It's free to download and fits right in your browser. No matter what site you're visiting, simply go to the Ask Toolbar already in your browser, and type in your search. Additional features include map information, the latest headlines, financial stock quotes and market-performance information, weather, a dictionary, and local event listings. The toolbar is dynamically upgradable; when a new feature is added, it will automatically update to your installed version.
Version 4.0.1.1 includes more options for saving stuff and powerful build-in search history.
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All versions:
1.6 starsout of 50 votes
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Current version:
1.2 starsout of 42 votes
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"Unwanted malware"
Version: Ask Toolbar 4.0.1.1
Pros
None, no use for it.
Cons
Malware = installs without your permission or knowledge.
Summary
Go to your Control Panel > Uninstall a program > Ask Toolbar
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"Unwanted malware"
Version: Ask Toolbar 4.0.1.1
Pros
No pros. This is malware that some random installer -- probably Java update -- shoved down my throat without my permission. There may have been an opt-out checkbox that I didn't notice, having somehow forgotten that Oracle is a malware factory that hates end users. Having used Oracle SQL, I don't know how I could've forgotten that, but I did.
Cons
It's worthless malware that piggybacks on other installers and eats screen real estate in the browser window. It has no features that anybody wants. Nobody ever installed it voluntarily; that's why they have to sneak it in on you. It would be cosmic justice if the developers responsible for this evil piece of garbage got maimed in a car crash and spent the next forty years conscious, immobile, and in unbearable pain. They could pay for their care by selling tickets to their victims. I'd pay good money to sit in their hospital rooms and laugh at them for hours at a time. I'd eat heads of raw garlic and spit it in their faces.
Summary
Also, Google gets very low marks for making Java the development language for Android. That's the only reason I have to have Java at all. It's an obsolete second-rate language, all known implementations are obsolete and second-rate, the dev tools are laughably bad, and it gives the malicious stinking pigs at Oracle a foothold on your system.
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"Useless crap"
Version: Ask Toolbar 4.0.1.1
Pros
Absolutely nothing.
Cons
This is a piece of useless junk that gets installed in your system, sometimes without your knowledge, "hiding" behind other softwares. Why would someone need it? Besides that, it's a complete waste of time to remove.
Summary
Should be vanished from the internet.
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"A massive bother"
Version: Ask Toolbar 4.0.1.1
Pros
keeps you alert
Cons
it's a malware
Summary
I have prayed for the makers to suffer... If there is a god, they will...
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"In every practical sense, malware. Dump it!"
Version: Ask Toolbar 4.0.1.1
Pros
The only Pro is that it can be deleted.
Cons
Installed usually without user knowledge by installing it by default with free software, most notably, Java updates (shame on you, Oracle!)
Gets in the way with browser redirects to advertising pages.
Harmful foistware and adware, primarily distributed through sneaky, ethically questionable methods.Summary
Shame on you, Oracle (and anyone else foisting this piece of junk on unsuspecting users)! Ask may be a legal way to extract revenue from free software, but in every other respect, it is reprehensible.
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"it is a product of a sick mind"
Version: Ask Toolbar 4.0.1.1
Pros
none, in my opinion any or many toolbars do the same or better
Cons
if you do not want to keep it , it is very difficult to get rid of , and that sounds like potantial trouble for being a free software
Summary
i am not a computer wizard so after all the suggestions and failed attempts i tried the longer way, if this thing is visible in browser then it might be hiding under some other name so for a start i checked all toolbars installed and started deleting them one by one, rebooted my system after every single toolbar delete, guess what, when i deleted auslogics toolbar and restarted the system that ask toolbar was gone, may be i was lucky but u may try this, i hope it helps
though i got rid of this 'ask' thing, it wasted a lot of my time, i suggest that cnet must include a warning instead of recomendation
Updated on Mar 2, 2013 -
"I hate ask. Ok CNET, How to get rid of it?"
Version: Ask Toolbar 4.0.1.1
Pros
None whatsoever
Cons
You name it!
Summary
How do I get rid of it???????
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"Piece of Crap!"
Version: Ask Toolbar 4.0.1.1
Pros
NONE! NOT ONE!! IF I COULD GIVE IT NO STARS, I WOULD!!!
Cons
Plants ads, spies and slows any computer that uses it.
Summary
The Ask Toolbar is a toolbar that installs negative with many programs (a little without your knowledge)
It can spy on your browsing and retrieve personal information, which is why it is considered spyware. You get infected when downloading and installing programs (including free). when you are prompted to install a toolbar from software partner. -
"Lets end AskToolbar"
Version: Ask Toolbar 4.0.1.1
Pros
Absolutely none.
Cons
This toolbar installs itself by deceiving users through installers of other programs and is very difficult to get rid of it.
Sign this petition to demand that AskToolbar is no longer bundled with other programs:
https://www.change.org/petitions/oracle-corporation-stop-bundling-ask-toolbar-with-the-java-installer -
"can't stand it"
Version: Ask Toolbar 4.0.1.1
Pros
it keeps you alert.
it used to be a headache to fully uninstall. now it's a just a nuisance.Cons
slows the machine down
Summary
cnet's rating of this ... toolbar ... makes me suspicious of all of cnet's other ratings.
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