quit trying to force your stupid browser toolbar on me, ye scurvy software installers!!!

So, the good ol' automated Java update checker says it's time to download a Java update and when I run the installer I click through too quickly, I realize too late that I accepted a request to allow it to install some extremely stupid and annoying Yahoo! browser toolbar bullshit.

I thought I was screwed.

Then my trusty Webroot antivirus/antispyware swoops into action telling me some so-and-so is trying to install a browser helper or some such, and do I want to block installation or allow. Uh, that'd be a block, thank you very much. It's so nice when anti-malware does what it is supposed to.

To the point: Why does a tried and true (and trusted), and essential software like Java have to try to hoodwink users into installing a browser toolbar? Who benefits from this? (besides Yahoo!?) Maybe Sun Microsystems gets some kind of kickback from installs of the toolbar. Who knows? Anyway, Sun should be classier than that. Very Very very lame.

Ok. 'Nuff ranted.