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Google Toolbar: removed the problems with data protection

Google Group has prepared an update of the Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer. It has removed a potential problem with the protection of user data. In certain circumstances, the Toolbar sends information about the sites you visit to Google's - even if an Internet user may not desire. Such a phenomenon occurs mostly when you are installing the user has agreed to incorporate the functions SideWiki and PageRank (which are quite formally transmit the information to search the concern).

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It appears, however, that Toolbar sends data as and when additional features have been locked in a newly opened Internet Explorer window. Discovered that Ben Edelman, a professor at Harvard Business School. Even if the bar is turned off in the menu additions, it really does continue; Toolbar 6.3.911.1819 versions of the 6.4.1311.42 stops working only when the browser is started again. A new edition of the belt can lock the browser without rebooting.

The problem does not affect Toolbar for Firefox. During the tests we carried out the bar could be disabled via a menu additions - even without a browser restart.

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