and I always get the customer's permission before I muck around with their system and I always try to tell them the risks involved and what alternatives I may have to take.

After all, someone has to cater to the customer's needs, they need spyware removed, and I will do it for them or have an employee do it for them. For a price of course. I might have to make a deal with the guy who writes the Spybot program to give him a percentage of the fees to remove spyware in exchange for a list of spyware programs that damage the registry beyond repair, and ways they can be repaired if possible. One day he may change the program from donations to registration codes, if that is the case I'll include the fee to register the program in with the fee to remove the spyware. Maybe I can get a bulk discount for that? :)