Now this is a great bit of news, even if I think they’re only trying to cover themselves due to lawsuits over adware and spyware. Download.com has promised that they will no longer allow bundled adware in downloads offered through their site.

It’s so nice seeing offering adware become too much of a legal issue for websites to want to risk being associated with it. Adware has become a huge problem both for marketers and for computer users, and has huge implications for your online privacy.

If you aren’t running it already, I suggest you get Microsoft’s Windows Antispyware program, as well as AdAware and SpyBot Search & Destroy. All of these are free solutions, but only Microsoft’s program runs in the background. Better yet, it does not destroy your cookies, since those are harmless (never mind what people claim about them).