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As computers are increasingly more integrated into our daily lives we become more dependent on software. This situation is exploited by villainous actors on the Internet that distribute malicious soft-ware in search for fast financial gains at the expense of deceived computer users. As a result, computer users need more accurate and aiding mechanisms to assist them when separating legitimate software from its unwanted counterparts. However, such separa-tions are complicated due to a grey zone of software that exists between legitimate and purely malicious software. The software in this grey zone is often vaguely labelled spyware. This work intro-duces both user-aiding mechanisms and an attempt to clarify the grey zone by introducing the concept of privacy-invasive software (PIS) as a category of software that ignores the users ’ right to be left alone. Such software is distributed with a specific intent (often o