The problem is that users often just click through installer screens, trusting that gave them the real installer and knowing that the Nmap project wouldn't put malicious code in our installer. Gordon Lyon (Fyodor), the developer of Nmap, has cried foul over the way the toolbar has been pushed, objecting in a post to the North American Network Operators' Group (Nanog) mailing list (extract below). Sysadmins can opt out of receiving the toolbar, which changes their browsing experience, home page and default search engines, but they are clearly directed towards accepting the software, as a blog post by Sophos illustrates. Over the last few days, users who have downloaded the tool from Cnet popular site have been, by default, offered it in conjunction with the Babylon Toolbar. Nmap is a popular open-source network auditing and penetration-testing tool that allows sysadmins to run network troubleshooting and penetration tests. Cnet has come under fire for wrapping downloads of the popular Nmap network analysis tool and other open-source software packages with a toolbar of dubious utility.
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