Personally, I like getting the notices from eBay so I use the eBay toolbar, BUT, I disabled the eBay toolbar helper so I do not have the toolbar up on top. All I get are the notifiers,and with the antivirus I have running constantly, it warns me if there are ANY spyware, ad-ons, viruses, etc... on any page that opens anywhere anytime and will tell me out loud even and shut down the browser if need be and hasn't yet with the eBay toolbar without the helper running. I think running it this way it's ok to use. I hope this helps , by the way , the antivirus I use is free and it is called Avast! Would'nt be without it!
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