yeah - most of those kinds of advertisements are infected with Gator. Dude, you just linked me to a site that tried to install gator on my computer - why did you do that? Now I gotta check everything again . I am installing the adsoft that Damon linked to though!

I agree though - the beachcats has nothing to do with the spyware. However, the term "spyware" is an tomatoe - tomahtoe thing. Since spyware has no real legal definition, any advertising company can say "no spyware" and not be lying even though things like Gator are involved.