As we've seen many times at SAF in start up lists posted by members, advertising spyware is alive, rampant and as insidious as ever. While some of these embedded advertising files pose little more than an annoyance, some truly do act as Internet spies, reporting on your every move to some faceless, nameless corporate entity.

There has been a series of articles at PC Magazine that discusses spyware and how to combat it. They've also done an in-depth review of nine different spyware detectors and disinfectors.