Well i check some downlods from the site in a test machine with deep freeze.
All the downloads are legitame programmes witch come with an installer with a conduit toolbar.
(name:uptodown toolbar)
In the installer u have the option to install or not this crap with the option to change your home page in somthing like google powered by uptodown.
If it ur choise to install the toolbar without the search engine, it will change it. So the option to change your homepage simply dosent work.(it will change it with or without you confirmation).
Also the unistaller dont remove the toolbar.(if u want to remove it ,it comes with an unistaller but it doesnt work).So u need third party tools to remove it from IE.
Also i check the avast from their site, is it legitame to have the avast with the option of the toolbar?
An non experience user will install the avast with that toolbar but the real installer of avast has no toolbar…