Yahoo molested my computer

[Matt]

Like a Catholic priest in an orphanage, Yahoo has taken it upon itself to unrelentingly ravish itself on my machine.

I installed Yahoo messenger, I turned off all the extraneous crap, but extraneous crap seems to reign supreme anyhow.

I not have a Yahoo toolbar (turned off), painful popups on startup (now turned off) dozens of Yahoo games and options in my start menu, shortcuts in my taskbar, a new ******* menu on the top of firefox between Bookmarks and Tools (now removed), and god knows what else.

How do I get rid of all this **** once and for all without manually disabling it one by one? As I said, I chose the install option without all the crap. All I wanted was the messenger. Wonder how much it would have installed if I said "please Yahoo give me your toys".

Other than random venting, this thread has no purpose, but let this be a warning to the rest of you....I normally use Trillian, but wanted to use the share pics thing (which is pretty cool) so installed the full messenger. It's not worth it.

 

[Matt]

....and Yahoo options on contextual menu when I right click on any webpage....argh.

 

[Aus_MD]

If you are using WinXP have you tried to use an earlier restore point?

 

[DNW]

IIRC, you can go into the control panel and uninstall anything that has Yahoo on it except the Messenger. It's been a while since I used Yahoo. I use Trillian, which allows you to chat to all popular IM services.

 

[imageWIS]

Originally Posted by DarkNWorn

IIRC, you can go into the control panel and uninstall anything that has Yahoo on it except the Messenger. It's been a while since I used Yahoo. I use Trillian, which allows you to chat to all popular IM services.

Trillian is the shiznit.

Jon.

 

[johnapril]

Better that than: http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...23604773&hl=en