Windows Defender - Google Toolbar has potentially unwanted behavior?

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I received about 8 alerts regarding a recent install of the Google
Toolbar (ver 3). Obviously, it sends info to and from Google and places
registry keys in the registry, but I thought this was a benign and
righteous deskbar tool.

Description:
This program has potentially unwanted behavior.

Advice:
Allow this detected item only if you trust the program or the software
publisher.

Resources:
regkey:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper
Objects\{AA58ED58-01DD-4d91-8333-CF10577473F7}

clsid:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\CLSID\{AA58ED58-01DD-4d91-8333-CF10577473F7}

regkey:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\CLSID\{AA58ED58-01DD-4d91-8333-CF10577473F7}

bho:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper
Objects\{AA58ED58-01DD-4d91-8333-CF10577473F7}

file:
c

c:\program files\google\googletoolbar1.dll

Category:
Not Yet Classified
 
These are log file records, not direct alerts, right?--or are they blue
records in a scan result?

I think the key to this is at the very end--Category: not yet classified.
This (probably new) Google code is as yet an unknown, to Spynet.

The areas being touched are typical of "bad" stuff--but as the text
mentions--you are aware of the publisher, and find them to be reputable.
So--proceed accordingly.

This isn't a condemnation of the actual behavior of the code--that's
unknown--it's a description of the risks of code using these integration
points, I think.
 
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