Currently, most governments of the developed countries are working on their anti-spam laws – if not already implemented - to protect their citizens and economy.  And as if this wouldn’t be enough work yet, spyware is appearing on the scene, which is in my opinion the most dangerous threat at all.  Spyware is software that monitors your online activities, transmits gained information to remote servers and annoys you with pop up advertisements. Internet users are often unaware that spyware has been downloaded to their computers and owners of computers infected with spyware generally claim that they never authorized the installation. This problem has started to get attention from legislators, as gaining unauthorized access to a computer is illegal under computer crime laws.

As spyware is installed quite often bundled with useful and desired software (shareware) the producers of the malicious applications primarily argue in defense of the legality of their acts that, contrary to the users' claims, in fact consent to the installation is given. The legalese text of the end-user licence agreement (EULA) would include the description of the spyware. Spyware companies play with the fact that many users habitually ignore these purported contracts and insist that users have consented to the installation of their software.

In addition, these EULAs seem to be made intentionally ambiguous with unobtrusive key contract terms and excessive in length. Such kind of agreements which cannot be binding could occur in the case of fraudulently installed spyware like e.g. drive-by downloads where the user receives no opportunity to either agree or refuse the contract terms.