It is clearly intentional to sneak in as many unwanted installs of the trojanised software changes but avoid the badware label by including a possible if obscured way to exclude them.
The option to decline the toolbar and home page and search engine hijacks belongs in the default install option not in the rarely chosen custom install option.
It is a sign that GAOTD is not happy with Ashampoo concealing normally unwanted and undocumented software and changes to the end users system is their inclusion of the warning to use custom installation in the readme file! Installing other software not explicitly offered or requested and not required for the primary function of the chosen product while installing the requested software is technically a trojan like action. In fact even IT technicians often have to choose typical default installs when installing some MS server based products as any deviation from a typical installation can break major enterprise applications scripted to expect bog standard instalations and they will fail, somtimes in odd and obscure ways and other times just fail to initalise databases correctly and not even complete installation scripts! Normal users quite rightly DO NOT choose custom installation same as professional software evaluators and reviewers, the former because most are not tech-aware or arrogant enough to assume they know better than the devloper for the best instalation configuration, and the latter because the devleoper controlled installation success or failure is a critical part of the evaluation of any software package.
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