CNET: Antispyware maker hunts down Gator

Feeding on publicity from the recent legal ruling giving sanction to adware pop-up advertising, interMute, a Massachusetts software firm, released SpySubtract, a program suspicious Internet downloaders can use to make sure that pop-up generating software never finds refuge on their hard drives. The software regularly checks the dark corners of the hard disk to make sure that no one, unintentionally or intentionally, installed the software that provides user conveniences in exchange for agreeing to see content-targeted pop-up advertising.