I don't think Grandpa posted all of this for people who may be 'paranoid' about spyware. In the official BearShare site it states that BearShare Lite has no spyware. Grandpa just wanted to inform people that it indeed does contain spyware. You may not have found it a problem removing all of that crap but there's a lot of people that don't want to go through all of that hassle. Not only that, but I don't understand why BearShare would lie and say that the program doesn't have spyware in it when it actually does. What would they have to gain from that?