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by JackGreyhat 782 days ago
"Autoruns" is the sysinternals tool you're talking about ;)
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Ah yeah, that's the one.

I don't know what the current situation is, but the amount of crapware back in the day was just staggering; every installer offered to "helpfully" install an extra toolbar or virus scanner or whatnot, which is how people ended up with 3 virus scanners and 8 toolbars in IE.