This article on a newer form of spyware, termed kruegerware, is pretty interesting. I should qualify that: to me. A few months back, I got Webjacked to Cool Web Search, and it was awful. I'm not going to keeping splitting hairs about Wired's recent purchase of a brand new pair of Bad Idea Jeans. Suffice it to say that kruegerware is aptly named, but should be Kruegerware technically.

Matt was nice enough to guide me through the removal process. I was able to get rid of it without going through all this hullaballoo, but this guy is pretty entertaining, especially when he exorcises the PC down around step 12.

My point in saying any of this is that the aforementioned article says this:

'On its Web site, Cool Web Search denies any involvement with such pieces of kruegerware and condemns its use. The company suggests such programs may be the work of "some webmasters, who are sending visitor traffic to us."'

Those bastardmasters! Who would do something so cruel ... to force you to make considerably more money than you could ever dream of making with a domain name like that, no offense. That reminds me to stop what I'm doing and go register mydomainnameisbetterthanyours.com right this very minute. You clicked it, didn't you? Silly monkey.