Somewhat OT: Spyware or Cancerous Software?

[Kendrick]

Jack wrote:

>registry, it is unlikely he'd still have a
>pre-infection copy of the registry. While it is a nice
>idea to have a central database where one can
>configure everything on the system, it was an
>extremely bad idea to make it so cryptic and
>accessible for abuse.
>
>Anyway that's my thought for the day. Avoid the cancer
>that Windows has become, use Linux.
>

as with most good ideas they were pushed beyond logicle and reasonable
limits.  I find way to much CRAP is put in a registry like icq# and misc
information that realy needs to reside with the program incase of emergency.