Maybe I'm just paranoid, or picky, or something. I've had desktop weather installed on all my systems for years, ever since it became available. The weather channel people have always been pretty straight-up folks. I got a message on all my systems to upgrade desktop weather software, so I did. Almost immedately the pop-up adds started. Do not download desktop weather. If you have the old version, don't upgrade! It is full of embedded spyware. Ad-aware couldn't even locate the offending files for removal. Had to completely uninstall. Now the old version isn't available. I dropped them a nasty-gram, but I'm posting this on every message-board and forum that I am a member of. thanks for your time, and if you do use desktop weather, make sure to send them some nasty feedback about their spyware!