Google ads showing up as Spyware!?!

[irishbandslist]

I've been looking over my site recently and the ads are showing up as Spyware when using Trend Internet Security. They were working fine yesterday. I've also noticed a low click through lately and this has prolly contributed to it. What could be causing this?

Has anyone else had this problem?!

[greedy player]

sounds bad, tell trend they are mistaken or something

[irishbandslist]

Just think how much revenue webmasters could be losing out of this. It could be YOU!

[david_uk]

I don't think adsense could be regarded as spyware by anybody, but like it or not people do regard the ads as junky spam. One of the Microsoft MVP's has a website that gives tools to maintain the windows hosts file, and adsense is in the list provided.

[webdudek]

I don't think those ad killers are such a threat.
If someone decides not to see your ads, usually this is the kind of guy that wouldn't click on them even if they were still there, therefore I don't think you are loosing too much revenue.
It is very easy to block google ads since their URL is well known. The 'hosts tool' is just another one of gazillion other ad blocking tools that do the same.
I don't think that should worry you.
As for the spyware indication, I would contact Google with the details, I believe they would be interested in checking it.