Hi Neal63,
I have been getting this Browzar shell thingie apart like the old grandpa alarm clock, and stuck on some remarkable facts.
Following info for informational purposes only:
The shell was built with Webweaver and Visual Basic C++, guess version 7.0. If you turn it on with the language changed to dutch, it leads you to the dutch page of ask.com, Salt Lake City comes into the picture, and names pop up like Secure-Comodo, the USERTRUST.com Network, for what that's worth, and the program comes from Huddersfield U.K.. Home base url: 217.199.173.135.
These are used accelerators:
VK_N, 57600, CONTROL, VIRTKEY
VK_O, 57601, CONTROL, VIRTKEY
VK_S, 57603, CONTROL, VIRTKEY
VK_Z, 57643, CONTROL, VIRTKEY
VK_X, 57635, CONTROL, VIRTKEY
VK_C, 57634, CONTROL, VIRTKEY
VK_V, 57637, CONTROL, VIRTKEY
VK_BACK, 57643, ALT, VIRTKEY
VK_DELETE, 57635, SHIFT, VIRTKEY
VK_INSERT, 57634, CONTROL, VIRTKEY
VK_INSERT, 57637, SHIFT, VIRTKEY
VK_F6, 57680, VIRTKEY
VK_F6, 57681, SHIFT, VIRTKEY
The excuse from the developers is that you can give in any searchengine URL you want, as they say, and the program was not meant to be an adtool per se.
Much worse i.m.h.o. it does not act as a privacy tool also, because it leaves traces of the visited URLs on several places on the user's hard disk. I discussed this in our thread.
With all the functionality of the underlying IE browser sitting there, it is not the most secure way to go, I fear.
What do you think?
polonus