Worried about Widgets? Worry no more!

by Chris Seibold May 10, 2005

For those of you worried about malicious widgets your sleepless nights are over. Downtown Software House has released Widget Manager giving you control over all your widgets in a pane of System Preferences. The software works great but the price is even better, its free.

Comments

  • Chris, a bit of an exaggeration maybe?  It’s a great tool and I installed it immediately I found out about it.  But a malicious widget will have already likely done its damage long before I delete it.

    Chris Howard had this to say on May 10, 2005 Posts: 1209
  • Well Chris from what I can tell the maliciousness of widgets is limited to not being able to remove them from Dashboard or being able to turn them off. You could, to cite one example, have a widget that displayed a picture of questionable nature everytime you used Dashboard with no easy way to remove the thing. Widget manager gets artound this. So whatever damage is likely to be done is more annoying than anything else. Though I could be wrong, maybe there are truly vile widgets in the wings.

    Chris Seibold had this to say on May 10, 2005 Posts: 354
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