I found this article very informing:
Thanks.
*SHRUGS* ... It has never made sense to me that info-gathering bugs (like adware/spyware) are money generators - who in their right mind would respond to unwanted ads propagating on their desktop by SUPPORTING any one of the companies in the ads? So what they purport to be for cannot be their true purpose. Leave it at this: Information gathering only makes sense as a MEANS if the perpetrator is some sort of uber/hyper control freak governmental entity. So the big picture here has already been around for a long time... JMO, YMMV.