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A few members of my family have gotten toolbars and search-hijacking malware on their Macs from carelessly installing freeware.



Citation needed. My entire family has Macs, and I have never seen this. As far as I know it is impossible to add toolbars to Safari: there is no API for doing so.

I call shenanigans.


What do you mean by "citation needed"? I highly doubt the parent poster documented the event. It is not impossible to add toolbars to Safari (e.g. http://blog.gregfiumara.com/archives/134)

Just because it hasn't happened to you, doesn't mean it never happens.


I was curious, so I did a quick search - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3313282?start=0&tst...


It was in firefox.




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