Java now installing adware
Posted on March 4th, 2015 at 11:34 AM EST
Rich Trouton, a Mac systems administrator who runs the Der Flounder blog, discovered yesterday that a Java installer is installing adware, in the form of the Ask Toolbar. (He first wrote about it on JAMF Nation, but has published additional information in his Der Flounder post today.) Fortunately, in the course of trying to duplicate his findings, it appears that this installer is a bit finicky, and may not always install the toolbar properly.
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