Yeah, I've put that Spyware tool on several people's PCs (the ones who I know won't run Adaware on regular intervals). Now that I know they've been merely testing it out, I'm not confused anymore. I was wondering why they were giving you the option to validate, when it was a lot easier, even if you had a legit copy, to simply skip it.

That's the part that bugs me. Have any of you gone through this process? It's a mess of ActiveX controls which first get blocked by MS's own new IE toolbar. Once you allow them, you've got to go through a slew of screens, all of which merely amount to clicking "Next." And then you see if you get validated (it's so nice to get some validation now and then).

But previously, if you didn't want to do that, the steps were "Do you want to validate" "No" "OK, click here to download."