Anyway, Microsoft now classifies these differently:
According to this, since the update at the end of March, the program recommends ignoring various Claria products classified as moderately dangerous, as well as those from the spyware mills WhenU and 180solutions.
Sorry, but background programs that display news are fundamentally unacceptable, and I don't care in the slightest about the velvet-glove arguments the manufacturers of this junk come up with.
Sorry, but a manufacturer of operating system software that does not suggest uninstalling such trash in an anti-spyware check is simply not credible.