On Friday I made a terrible mistake. I allowed the latest update of Yahoo Messenger 8.1 to install. Ugh.
I should have known better. I recall from the past that Yahoo Messenger makes changes to IE without asking. I just clicked through the install dialog though and picked the default installation. What a mistake. Yahoo changed my home page. Installed a toolbar. Changed my default email settings. And who knows what.
Sorry Yahoo I don’t get this. What a rude thing to do.
CNet has an article about this obtrusive Yahoo install here.
I realize I should have selected the customize button when doing the install in order to prevent these default changes. However, hiding all of these changes behind a custom option is impolite.