460394 - about an application called "Zwinky" & "MyWebSearch"

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Jackie]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3

when I try to download an application from facebook, the "Zwinky" it added a toolbar that i was able to remove or close but it still have "My Web Search" on the tools section on the toolbars.  It seems to me that like a trojan, it's annoying! It did not want to be deleted nor remove from the program files, the add/remove programs and in the registry it spread all over the place with other files.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
Cannot remove "My Web Seach" file name from the toolbar of firefox and i know it wasn't there

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

MyWeb Searchbar (uinstalled by Zwinky) is spyware ! See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyWeb_Searchbar>

To remove it, see <http://www.pchell.com/support/mywebsearch.shtml>

Closing this bug, since it's not a problem in Firefox itself (the app installs itself in a lot of different applications)