Adware

Adware/Spyware is amazing stuff. In recent years it has, much like spam, spawned an entire dare I say, billion dollar?, industry unto itself. First came the adware, then came our saviors the anti-adware vendors. Then the adware folks figured out they could subvert the anti-adware software simply and easily, by paying the vendors of said software to leave their adware intact. After this it was taken even further, companies who had been squarely on the shady adware side of the fence started releasing their very own anti-adware software. This allowed them to not only directly install their shady ad-serving software without jumping through hoops, it provided them a mechanism to keep your PC for themselves in a marketplace of increasing competition. Yes Adware truly is great capitalism, I really wish that my Star Trek-inspired moral code (more on this at a later date) would have allowed me to jump into this market early on and rake in the millions. Getting to the point, I have had my Windows machine infested with this vile stuff on more than one occasion, usually on purpose (don't ask). Well, it really isn't too bad, to start... You get yourself a cool little toolbar sometimes, every once in a while you get an unexpected popup to some slickly designed graphical marketing masterpiece. No big deal, at least not until things go wrong. Those goddamn contract Indian developers can't code for shit, so when things go wrong, they go really wrong. Random fork bombs and hundreds of error dialogs popping up everywhere. Hundreds of megabytes of RAM being consumed senselessly. The point? If you're a purveyor of adware and watching those millions roll in, the least you could do is get rid of those Indian asshats and pay a red blooded American software developer to craft you some adware that isn't roughly equivalent to a steaming pile of dog doo. After all, it's not as if you are scamming Indians with that stuff, is it?