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Ebay Highlighter WTF?

I opened Firefox today and had a new icon at the top right:

Ebay Highlighter AutoInstall?

Ebay Highlighter AutoInstall?

I didn’t install the highlighter and I never saw any confirmation windows asking for permission to install it.  Has anyone else had the Ebay Highlighter Auto Install / Install Itself / Magically appear?  I had to Google to find out what it was, it “lets you highlight different products in Firefox or Internet Explorer and compare the pricing of those products on eBay.”  – Tech Crunch

The last thing I need is additional addons/plugins installing themselves in Firefox!  Anybody else get a confirmation or dialog?  Maybe I’m just special?


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3 Responses to “Ebay Highlighter WTF?”

  1. ColMcc Says:
    April 9th, 2009 at 8:56 pm

    I’ve got $1 that you recently updated Skype? Seems the Adobe Highlighter hitches a ride…

    Or if not Skype, did you install anything else internet/web-y recently?

  2. Waterppk Says:
    April 9th, 2009 at 9:32 pm

    I have Skype installed, but it hasn’t been updated/run in about a month. I’m wondering if Adobe didn’t slip an update in an Adobe install, but I haven’t had a notice of an update there either.

    Scary.

  3. Waterppk Says:
    April 10th, 2009 at 10:16 am

    Looks like it’s hitching a ride on Skype . . .

    http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?locale=en-US&forumId=1&comments_parentId=323758

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