“It outta be illegal” is the first thing I usually hear as I start the long process of sanitizing a spyware infested windows machine. The fact is some parts of it ARE, some are just ethically questionable. The area that’s against the law is the part that involves tacking control of someone elses computer without their permission, either manually or in an automated way (exploiting a vulnerability to install a trojan or bot.) Today Brian Krebs is reporting on The connection between botnets and spyware at the securityfix.