The application is an Internet Explorer Toolbar. It has the ability to suppress popups, search the top three search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN), translate websites (German, English, French, Italian, Spanish), and read text from any web-page. The application does not collect any kind of user information. It does not create popups and it is not a spyware.Windows XP users will need to download a 824KB activeX from Microsoft to enable the speech functionality here. Windows 98 and below will need these files to enable speech functionality (395 KB)here.