Installing Forge added other apps?

[jigglingdoritos]

I was just installing Forge and it added ByteFence Anit Malware, WinZip Driver Updater, DriverTonic, and iPCAP to my computer. And on top of that, there's now a permanent search bar at the top of my screen that I do not want. I'm just wondering why it had to install that many apps AND the annoying search bar. At the very least, can someone help me remove the search bar? I don't know how to get rid of it. Thanks.

[loordgek]

https://nl.malwarebytes.com/adwcleaner/

and its recommended to run a anti virus scanner

where did you download from?

only download from https://files.minecraftforge.net/

[Jody Obrien]

I also installed Forge but this problem didn't appear at all