I can confirm the Yahoo tool bar in earlier versions of AVG 8, I removed it in favor of AVG 7.5, I don't like the background processes. And, nice analogy with the image DMR, For every piece of software, there's something lurking inside. Oh, the best solution when installing windows live messenger, remove windows live installer after WLM is installed. Or it'll try to update Windows Live software and such, quite bothersome, almost as bad as windows update insisting it MUST install while I'm in the middle of Counter-Strike: Source.