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https://www.pcmatic.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/pcmatic-fallback.png19201080by Robert P. Lipschutz and John Clyman There's a lot of confusion about exactly what the term "spyware" means and it seems that everyone has an angle. For example, some shady software vendors prominently label their programs "spyware-free" even though in fact they may contain undesirable software hitchhikers that most of us would classify as spyware. The companies justify these claims by using an extremely narrow definition of the term "spyware" -- but in our minds, these claims wouldn't be much different than a soda manufacturer's proclaiming that its product is "sugar-free" and justifying this statement by arguing that the corn syrup in the soda just doesn't fall under its definition of "sugar".