The truth about toolbars

The truth about toolbars.
Toolbars can be useful but get the wrong one and they will cause you trouble.
Their are a lot of third party toolbars out their to chose from, The problem is this. Not all toolbars do what they claim. In fact most are filled with adware and spyware. Most will claim to increase your surfing speeds. If you see claims like this don't believe it. Your surfing speeds are determined by many things like your internet provider, if you are on dialup or DSL the phone lines coming to your home and in your home will be a factor in this, if you have broadband the area your in and the lines you are connected to can determine your speeds. What the toolbar is really doing is collecting information that you are typing like your email address, name, phone number, home address, any thing you type. This is called a key logger. It is a small program that was installed with the toolbar. Once collected the info is sent to another system where it is sold. Yes somebody is making money off your info. You may notice an increase in popups, unwanted emails, and web pages that you did not ask for. Not all toolbars are bad and if you must have one I suggest one of these three. The google toolbar witch can be found at
http://toolbar.google.com/index_2Another nice one is the msn toolbar found at http://toolbar.msn.com The last one is the yahoo toolbar, this can be found at http://toolbar.yahoo.com Remember toolbars are like friends, A good one will never do you wrong.