Interesting - I had up to now assumed that CNET / Downloads.com was “kosher”.

There is quite some correspondence on the CNET Forum from earlier this year from folk who have had the same affliction as I have. I followed up one of the solutions and was able to stop Babylon from appearing with Firefox, but not with Internet Explorer 8 which I use more often.

I think it was the latest Foxit pdf reader that I was downloading. Previous downloads never had the Babylon “option” forced on me.

I will wait to hear from the official remover. The key might (might) have something to do with the file S-1-5-21-1957994488-1425521274-725345543-1004 which was the one babylon file which refused to be deleted manually after my search of my hard drives. It cropped up in both the C:\Recycler and D:\Recycled folders.