The spyware / virus / dialer issue is exactly why I don\'t trust anything that is not OpenSource for anything that might use the internet, because having the source is the only way of knowing what the program is going to do. Even without reading it by oneself, there will be several people who do, and therefore you can be pretty sure that anything evil will be discovered within days of it\'s appearance, and broadly announced. Of course, there still is the option of hiding things in the binaries, but this also is not very dangerous, because there will also be many people who build the binaries themselves and verify the outcome to the binary distribution.
Therefore this is a(nother) good reason why FOSS is superior. :tup: