Microsoft security tools will now be treating the Ask Toolbar that comes alongside Oracle's Java installations as "unwanted software" (a category that also includes malware). For a while now, when ...

Microsoft's Program Install and Uninstall Troubleshooter is a Web-based utility that fixes problems associated with the installation or uninstallation process. Specifically, it repairs the corrupted ...

Continuing on with its strategy to build search share by gaining distribution partners, Microsoft has landed a deal to have its MSN Toolbar offered to anyone in the United States who downloads Java ...

Update 6/5/2015 11:58AM: Microsoft has updated its alert to clarify that only older versions of the Ask toolbar are a problem. An Ask.com spokesperson told us the company believes less than one ...

My general opinion of browser toolbars is that they are a waste of screen space. In my eyes, they're useless. Microsoft has a different opinion, and regularly updates its toolbars. The MSN Toolbar, ...

Correction: After this article was published, Microsoft clarified that the version of the Ask Toolbar it classifies as malware is not the current version. The latest version of the toolbar will not be ...

People who download Sun’s Java Runtime Environment will be offered the MSN Toolbar as well, through a search distribution deal https://www.pcworld.com/tags ...

As part of its regular Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released an update for its various toolbars, and this update came with more than just documented fixes. The update also installs an add-on for Internet ...