I don't know if RealSh*tbox is considered to be spyware by Ad Aware. Is it?

There are some applications which, at runtime, gather and report data on their users, but they arent't overtly pieces of terminate-and-stay-resident adware like Cydoor. I would have figured that Real wasn't overt TSR adware, it was just a privacy-invading app like the WindowsXP registration app.

Ad Aware is a fantastic piece of software regardless, though, and everyone should use it.