I think it's important to consider the various things I did separately, because I don't actually have any problem with writing software that's ad-supported, or with writing software to kick viruses off people's systems. Or, for that matter, to kick other adware off people's systems, although that is a bit dicey. The persistence mechanisms that I wrote were much farther into dicey territory, although I will note that there was an uninstaller, and it worked, and I helped write that, much like I helped write other bits of DR's software. I did not go spelunking into people's systems to steal personal info, nor did I use exploits to get onto people's boxes. In fact, I spent a bunch of time writing software to detect such behavior, so the relevant distributor could be stopped sooner. So some, but not all, of what I did was dicey, but none of it was close to what you seem to think I did.
