By Richard Koman for SiliconValleyWatcher

On Friday I wrote up a story from the BBC on Browzar - an IE add-on that would disable all the personal information browsers typically save to your hard drive.
Over the weekend, bloggers pulled the curtain down on the developers, who turn out to be adware scum who have hit on the latest way to get people to download their spyware: call it a privacy product.

Web3.0log reports:

After starting, Browzar shows its’ homepage, and these settings cannot be changed. Homepage offers to “Search the Web…”, but gives weird results from weird SE. I input “del.icio.us” and got ... [r]eally odd results, “Delicious at Amazon.co.uk“, “Find Delicious on eBay“… Attention to status bar!!! You’ll see links to… www6.overture.com. Overture is well-known PayPerClick-SE! It’s no wonder that search field on browser toolbar operates via Overture too.

A blog by McGill engineering student Wadih concludes: "A 45 minutes analysis showed that Browzar™ does not securely destroy the history, cookies, nor other kind of medias downloaded with it. Indeed, those files are fully recoverable as I will show in this blog entry. Browzar™ offers a false sense of privacy and security, and should only be used to hide traces from unknowledgeable people."

The BBC has Browzar's denials.