No, I'm not talking about Office 2003 -- I'm talking about the way many pieces of free software (including free programs from major manufacturers) try to shoehorn some kind of browser or system toolbar into your computer. The Java runtime envrionment tries to install the Google toolbar; the Adobe PDF Reader tries to install the Yahoo! Toolbar; the free systen-cleanup tool CCleaner tries to install Y!T as well. And so on.
I don't use such tools; I find them more of a headache than anything else. It's tiresome to have to say "no" to such things each time they're offered. But at least they're optional and not mandatory ... at least for now.
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