Things really seem to be cooking lately on the adware/spyware game. Download.com boots them, an Attorney General is getting cranky with them and anti-spyware movers and shakers are turning up the heat:

Adware & Spyware- The Heat is On

Loved this part:

I’ve said it before and I will say it again- merchant’s beware. The time of reckoning is nigh and finally Pandora’s Box is about to be opened. No matter how much adware companies claim they have “reformed” they still have a lot to answer for their past behavior. Behavior that should not go unchallenged or overlooked.