Well Jonny,
First of all windows XP has spyware built right into it. XP spyware by the way is quite harmless but can not be deleted. So xp users cannot hide anything from ole Bill Gates. Something that the government had said no to, but bill did it anyways and the government did nothing about it. And why is that? I suspect 2 reasons. Maybe a payoff, which bill can surely afford to do. 2nd is the high crime rate and potential that spyware has to help fight crime after years of developing better and better spyware. Spyware will be really handy to fight crime with more and more people using PC's. There is a lot of girls meeting men over the pc and getting raped, kidnapped, and murdered while doing so. So I am sure the government may have been convinced that spyware can be useful.
And about your other quote " As long as we behave properly, there are no
reason to think about it, is it?" Yes there is. When your pc begins to malfunction, and slow to a crawl, getting more and more "illegal operations and will shut down" errors, you will surely think about it. hehe
You see when that error comes up, and shuts down whatever you are using, it is often because there is not enough system resources available to handle things, without having to shut down. To those of you who get that error in many program, often, the reason is that you have so many spyware programs running in the background that they are using up all your resources! About 90 % of pc users have spyware on their pc! Only a few users do not. And those few, probably soon will. It is a huge problem! I am sure that some people here remember people reporting back with the number of spyware they found with adaware on their pc. Many had over 50 of them. Some had over 100! And most had at least 20-30. I was talking to a woman online last week. She had pc problems, and I helped her out. I knew it was spyware because of her symtoms. Turned out she had 189 of them on her pc! That's right! 189! Unreal. Her pc which had 256 ram, was running like a 386 puter with a 14k modem! LOL After running spyware and cleaning them out with it, She was up and flying. Only thing now is after deleting 189 of them, and never doing a defrag in more than a year, her hard drive was so fragmented that it won't even do a defrag now. It can't get past 10 %.
Tony