Recently many companies with products that are, or could be classed as Adware/Spyware have been threatening legal action against any company that classes them as such. Symantec, apparently aiming to beat Hotbar to the punch has filed suit against Hotbar asking Hotbar to be declared as Adware and to enable Symantec to treat it as such.
This quote from the Symantec seems to sum it up best:
Symantec is not seeking damages as part of the suit. Symantec is petitioning for a declaratory judgement by the court affirming Symantec’s assertion that certain Hotbar program files are indeed adware and can be treated as computer security risks.
Until there are strict guidelines defining Spyware and Adware, we should get used to these sort of cases. In other news, it seems that Hotbar has also had it’s right to use the Truste seal of approval according to Eweek.
