Google participates in a joint effort to combat spyware

Google along with Lenovo and Sun Microsystems launched a new website named www.stopbadware.org Permalink about this announcement is at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/putting-stop-to-spyware.html
If you want to know more about Spyware, Wikipedia has good information at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyware