Megaupload Toolbar is a Spyware which Changes Browser Settings

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This is NO new news but still I want to write about it as right now I am a little pissed off and secondly but more importantly, I want people to be aware of this and to be careful in installing Megaupload Toolbar as it is spyware !

Megaupload asks people to download there toolbar to get rid of download limits which they put. Now its fairly obvious that there will be some catch into it. So the catch is, after installing the megaupload toolbar, it changes your browser settings. One of the thing it does is to change your 404 error page. Instead of seeing it regular 404 page it redirects you to megaclick site and shows there own error page like this which -

Megaupload is making money when you use the search or click on the links. Now there is perfectly nothing wrong in that provided you inform about this to the person who is downloading it which megaupload is NOT doing.

How to remove this error page ? - Simple just uninstall megaupload toolbar completely. Using Control Panel->Add/Remove program uninstall it and for firefox, you will also be needed to uninstall the megaupload toolbar plugin. Thats it.