As the Distinguished Member Vass rightly and eloquently addressed the question of spyware with a resounding NO, I may venture to add to the astute member's conclusions that while the aforementioned software does not contain embedded spyware and other nasty macros, it certainly uses system resources in terms of RAM and CPU power. As the Distinguished Member Vass will confirm, this will ensure your system runs imperceptibly slower unless you are on a 486 system with 8MB RAM, a 240MB drive and running windows for workgroups revised version 3.1.