Originally Posted by BlueWire

Well, I voted yet but I think its yes and no...I think there are two kinds of spyware...

1) The kind that software such as Kazaa tell you they are installing on your computer in order to run the free version. You're warned, you accept.....later on you end up throwing your computer away because you cant get rid of the damn GAIN software...but you DID give them the okay

2) The kind that automatically installs through IE loopholes. These are viruses in everyway.....And I got news, its nothing new! Viruses for the life of them have in large part been NON-DAMAGING to your system and just told the originator what you were doing on your computer....Some of them tracked key strokes...some tracked websites...Now they are calling it spyware...i think of it as just another sub-classification of a virus