I use both of those mentioned above as well as Norton AV2004 which has anti adware/spyware stuff built in. And if your using P2P software I'd recommend Kazzalite - it's been tweeked to remove all the built in adware

I use a program called pestpatrol that also checks for trojans and worms as well as the pests.

It doesnt like Kazaa at all and identifies all of those files as potential pests.

Having been mercilessly hacked back in the days when I was naively unaware of nasties on the net, I also run a firewall and anti virus software that I update constantly and also put in all the windows updates as they come out.

Another loyal fan of spybot here too. I hate having anyone poking their grubby little software where it shouldn't be....namely my computer.

I have to tell you I have been in pop up hell lately. Nothing, even Spybot could get rid of this thing that attached itself to IE.

CoolWeb Shredder finally got it the hell out of my system. Then it suggested I check with Windows and sure enough a patch has been developed to prevent this specific, persistent little bug from getting back in.

What I want to know if how in the heck do I get all of this spam in my email when I never requested it be sent to me? One day, I was in pop-up hell and I noticed that the majority of the spam that I am getting is from those stupid popups!!! How did they get my email address???? Yesterday I got 50 messages from the same place!!!

**Stomps feet**

SpySweeper is another good one and free. It is also a good idea to have JAVA off when your going to sites you have not been to before. A lot of these things are JAVA.

Daaaaaaaaaaaaauuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmm... had 152 of them little buggers!!!!! Thanks for the link Lil!!! Guess Adaware missed a few! I also got the shreader!!!