Solve : Did Google and Yahoo make a deal with the Devil??

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Answer» Got your attention. Hey, this is Off Topic. The full title of the article is: How MANY people here knew that Google is partnered with Israeli malware producer. This was posted about four months ago. To date nobody gave a conniving rebuttal. Quote The firm points out both Perion and reverse merger partner Conduit have two-year deals in place with Google, and that Perion also has a 4-year deal (inked earlier this year) with Yahoo. The toolbars bundled by companies such as Babylon, Perion, and AVG have often been CRITICIZED as "foistware" that users wind up unintentionally installing, and sometimes have trouble removing. Perion's two main consumer brands are IncrediMail and Smilebox. The company's products have had over 150 million downloads and have an installation base of more than 18 million. The company's stock rose in value early in 2013 due to strong growth forecasts.[1] This growth is primarily the result of the adware and malware programs it distributes, among them Incredibar (a web SEARCH toolbar) and SweetIM (an instant messaging program), which are very difficult to remove after installation. Source: https://duck.co/forum/thread/5121/how-many-people-here-knew-that-google-is-partnered This can not be fully verified. But the story is repeated on many sites. Some say that even Yahoo and Bing made deals with the malware people. What is the truth? Curious minds need to know.You should be PC News editor at Yahoo or Bing...not here though.There is nothing wrong with Conduit. Trust me when I say that I have been in and witnessed MANY conversations about Conduit over the years. At first (10 years ago?) Conduit was spyware and it was immediately black listed by every security vendor. It took Conduit about 6 months before they saw the light and cleaned up the software. Since then they have been de-listed as malware and considered safe. It's not the first time Conduit and Google have had a deal and Microsoft also has (had?) a deal with Conduit. Conduit Dumps Google Search for Microsoft's Bing Some things people will just never let go of. The STIGMA of "cookies are spyware" will always be there. Ask.com is no longer a threat but they have a permanent black eye. iObit has corrected their bad behavior but will always be hated. The Norton/Symantec of today is one of the best security suites available but the past still haunts them. And on and on. Conduit is one of the infamous companies that made mistakes and that the internet will never forget or forgive them for it.The Internet never forgets...Quote To date nobody gave a conniving rebuttal. Occam's Razor. That Google, or Yahoo, or any number of other multinational companies would purposely partner with software vendors that create malware is an extraordinary one. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The source and it's links show that Perion merged with Conduit. Ther eis a link leading to this page. Of course the claims, as you've said, cannot be verified. More importantly, nothing indicates a partnership. a "Cooperation agreement" is not a partnership, and the ominous tone with which some of this information is revealed has no factual basis. And this is coming from somebody who is no fan of Google himself. Microsoft uses a lot of the same marketing strategies for Bing that smaller start-up search providers use. Since it's Microsoft they are considered 'aggressive' or 'shrewd' tactics. When you are a small nobody start-up those same tactics can be seen as underhanded or even malicious. I like to complain about toolbars just as much as the next guy-gal. That doesn't mean they are all dangerous or are not useful. TAKE a close look at all of your Firefox add-ons. Some are toolbars only they are compacted into a little button. A little button but still be a toolbar.This is bad But Google has been known to be naughty and its not going to be the first time we read something bad about themI was thinking this thread was dead. But notice that Conduit is mentioned recently in the CH virus forum. And other place where they talk about malware. Also, even Apple Mac users have Conduit issues. For those that believe Conduit is OK, just go download anything off of CNET and see what happens to your default browser search settings. The fatal flaw of Conduit is it is free to alter and re-distribute. Some abuse it and some don't. CNET uses an install wrapper that is created by and distributed by CNET and it can be disabled. Not that I would ever suggest using CNET as a download source. They lost my trust well before the addition of the install wrapper.

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Got your attention. Hey, this is Off Topic.
The full title of the article is:
How MANY people here knew that Google is partnered with Israeli malware producer.
This was posted about four months ago. To date nobody gave a conniving rebuttal.
Quote

The firm points out both Perion and reverse merger partner Conduit have two-year deals in place with Google, and that Perion also has a 4-year deal (inked earlier this year) with Yahoo.

The toolbars bundled by companies such as Babylon, Perion, and AVG have often been CRITICIZED as "foistware" that users wind up unintentionally installing, and sometimes have trouble removing.

Perion's two main consumer brands are IncrediMail and Smilebox. The company's products have had over 150 million downloads and have an installation base of more than 18 million. The company's stock rose in value early in 2013 due to strong growth forecasts.[1] This growth is primarily the result of the adware and malware programs it distributes, among them Incredibar (a web SEARCH toolbar) and SweetIM (an instant messaging program), which are very difficult to remove after installation.

Source:
https://duck.co/forum/thread/5121/how-many-people-here-knew-that-google-is-partnered
This can not be fully verified. But the story is repeated on many sites. Some say that even Yahoo and Bing made deals with the malware people.
What is the truth?
Curious minds need to know.You should be PC News editor at Yahoo or Bing...not here though.There is nothing wrong with Conduit.

Trust me when I say that I have been in and witnessed MANY conversations about Conduit over the years. At first (10 years ago?) Conduit was spyware and it was immediately black listed by every security vendor. It took Conduit about 6 months before they saw the light and cleaned up the software. Since then they have been de-listed as malware and considered safe.

It's not the first time Conduit and Google have had a deal and Microsoft also has (had?) a deal with Conduit. Conduit Dumps Google Search for Microsoft's Bing

Some things people will just never let go of. The STIGMA of "cookies are spyware" will always be there. Ask.com is no longer a threat but they have a permanent black eye. iObit has corrected their bad behavior but will always be hated. The Norton/Symantec of today is one of the best security suites available but the past still haunts them. And on and on.

Conduit is one of the infamous companies that made mistakes and that the internet will never forget or forgive them for it.The Internet never forgets...Quote

To date nobody gave a conniving rebuttal.

Occam's Razor.

That Google, or Yahoo, or any number of other multinational companies would purposely partner with software vendors that create malware is an extraordinary one.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

The source and it's links show that Perion merged with Conduit.

Ther eis a link leading to this page. Of course the claims, as you've said, cannot be verified. More importantly, nothing indicates a partnership. a "Cooperation agreement" is not a partnership, and the ominous tone with which some of this information is revealed has no factual basis.
And this is coming from somebody who is no fan of Google himself.

Microsoft uses a lot of the same marketing strategies for Bing that smaller start-up search providers use. Since it's Microsoft they are considered 'aggressive' or 'shrewd' tactics. When you are a small nobody start-up those same tactics can be seen as underhanded or even malicious.

I like to complain about toolbars just as much as the next guy-gal. That doesn't mean they are all dangerous or are not useful. TAKE a close look at all of your Firefox add-ons. Some are toolbars only they are compacted into a little button. A little button but still be a toolbar.This is bad

But Google has been known to be naughty and its not going to be the first time we read something bad about themI was thinking this thread was dead.
But notice that Conduit is mentioned recently in the CH virus forum. And other place where they talk about malware.

Also, even Apple Mac users have Conduit issues.

For those that believe Conduit is OK, just go download anything off of CNET and see what happens to your default browser search settings.

The fatal flaw of Conduit is it is free to alter and re-distribute. Some abuse it and some don't.

CNET uses an install wrapper that is created by and distributed by CNET and it can be disabled. Not that I would ever suggest using CNET as a download source. They lost my trust well before the addition of the install wrapper.

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