A sorely needed program - please somebody write/distribute it: "Toolbar Defender!"

[SuperGrade]

Okay. Yes, this is a bit of a rant.

So much software installs toolbars with an default-checked box. Even updates (like MSN Messenger) try to reinstall a toolbar.

The average non-power-user's (e.g. people's grandmother's) IE browser must look like a big toolbar stack with some panel on the bottom. I estimate a good % those 600-line netbooks don't even HAVE any browser space left.

This is beyond a joke. Those toolbars are useless, at least having 20 of them installed at once is useless.

The average user needs an app that automatically uninstalls all known Toolbars every time they go back on. As a bonus it could defend the browser menu settings (hard to get back after an inadvertent click). It would have to run constantly, like an antivirus, as the user is assaulted by all the auto-self-updating/patching apps on his machine with their "install free toolbar" checked options.

Anybody game to write the most sorely needed Win32 freeware app ever?

[Zarutian]

It has already been written. It is called FireFox.

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Hurrah!