One Laptop, Slightly Mangled...

I'm about to shoot my laptop, which has become infected with some stupid @&%$ing adware program that's made the thing go haywire. It also sextuple-posted my last thing about 3WV and the Yankees, which made me want to drop-kick the little trashbox of circuits this AM.

One thing I wonder, though...Other than being a total pain in the ass (which deviant computer nerds tend to be) and stealing your personal info., what good do these adware/spyware/crapware things do? If I was writing some malware garbage, the last thing I'd do is let the user know that it's on my system...

To the few actually reading this (especially those on CvilleBlogs), sorry. My laptop will pay tonight.