Conduit is extremely intrusive and difficult to completely remove. There is no excuse for its behavior. They very clearly know it's malware and they try everything to keep it installed.
Yes, malware. Not just crap. Crap implies merely bad, this hides from you and tries to influence you and prevent you from removing it. Nothing merely crappy does that.
The last-remaining spot that kept coming back for me was that it wrote itself into Firefox's XUL - no plugin to remove, no toolbar, no hint that it had done something like that. I only found it because I decided to grep every file in every FF directory on my system.
If it gets installed on your system, or on someone else's, and you have Firefox installed, remove all the plugins and crap and reinstall Firefox.
Yes, malware. Not just crap. Crap implies merely bad, this hides from you and tries to influence you and prevent you from removing it. Nothing merely crappy does that.
The last-remaining spot that kept coming back for me was that it wrote itself into Firefox's XUL - no plugin to remove, no toolbar, no hint that it had done something like that. I only found it because I decided to grep every file in every FF directory on my system.
If it gets installed on your system, or on someone else's, and you have Firefox installed, remove all the plugins and crap and reinstall Firefox.