Conduit Itself is not Malware per se, but the toolbars made with it can be. So it's better to remove it. The Entries that are trying to load, might be turned off in Taskmanager under "startup".
I have an old Conduit Toolbar I use for my band website, it has been pretty safe so far, but I never allow the bad things to load up, and you can control what loads into the toolbar from the site that creates it - Which is "Ourtoolbar.com"