Blocking a Toolbar Update

[Brett_Tabke]

Interesting question poised to me that I didn't have an answer for.

How could one block a Toolbar update?

The only thing that came to mind was marking the dll as read only.

[fathom]

hmmm... I don't seem to get an update unless I request it.

[chris_f]

Brett,

There are two ways of making dll's as read only.

1. Alter the file but not the content.
2. Alter nothing (file or content)

I believe 1 will still allow the update to occur and 2 would stop the toolbar from working altogether.

Chris.

[yobb]

I think it's hard to find out how to do it, because as far as I know the update-mechanism is nowhere documented. So you would need an outdated version of the toolbar to watch what's happening during the update.

By the way, if you don't update it, you will be vulnerable to all kind of old exploits, like the ones shown here for version 1.1.58:
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Is there a document somewhere on the net listing all those files and settings the toolbar adds to your system?
I would like to get rid of it, but since I do not trust google anymore since this trojan-behaviour of the toolbar I would prefer to do it manually. Unfortunately, I did not track the changes when I installed version 1.something and now this old version is nowhere to be downloaded anymore. Looks like I have to format my whole C Drive. Damn. Trust someone and you get in trouble...

[Brett_Tabke]

Well, I marked my dll as a system file read only.

We'll see if that stops the next update.

(note - you'll have to do the above from dos, since the dll is in active use by ie any time 95+ starts)