KuiXing,

The sad reality of the world is that there are always going to be cat-and-mouse games. Someone will invent spyware, then anti-spyware. By the time the law catches up with it, there will be something else against from which we will have to defend ourselves. So, until we come up with a better law, we will have to group them as spyware (by "we" I don't mean the AO community, but humankind in general).

BlackIce,

I totally agree with you. I don't want anything-ware on my computer unless I downloaded (or purchased) it and am willingly installing it.

I'm wondering, with these toolbars and stuff for IE, shouldn't there be an installation screen, a EULA, a way of removal, option to not install? IMHO, a production software that answers no to any of these is classified as "sneak"-ware, as BlackIce puts it.