Which Adware and Spyware are the Most Insidious?

the_dreadnought asks: "I was just asked today which adware and spyware are the most insidious by an acquaintance. He asked me if this stuff was really legal, or was it just not important enough for law enforcement to deal with? I know the porn stuff (not from experience,,,ok, from experience) that dials out to foreign countries is one of the more extreme examples, and Gator is well known, but if Slashdot readers could describe what adware and spyware they think is the sneakiest I would appreciate it. Also, any thoughts on whether some of this stuff is even legal, as it is almost certainly not ethical."

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Re:hotbar

[Espectr0]

One program that really annoys me is hotbar. The main reason so, it adjusts your MS Outlook settings all the time turning off using Word as your HTML editor.

No one on his/her senses uses word as their mail editor. Any one that uses word gets sent to /dev/null in my box.

Plain text is the standard. Use it or lose it. You don't seem to know what horrid html word uses to send mail.