A lot of anti-Spyware programs actually install spyware and adaware. Make sure your's is not on this list:

http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm

Good one! thanks for that Crash.

What's a really good, free, anti-spyware program Crash?

Here are two of the best


a-squared Free
http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/

Ad-Aware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/single/trialpay.php

The two I use. Both will also take out Trojans. For daily use I use SUPER and once a week I use the heavy hitter, Spybot to get rid of anything SUPER missed.

SUPERAntispSpyware free edition:
http://www.superantispyware.com/download.html

Spybot Seach and Destroy:
http://www.download.com/Spybot-Sear...4-10122137.html

Be very careful of clones with very similar sounding names to Spybot Search and Destroy, so download from above only.

No need, I have a MAC.

Thanks for that Crash.


JoeF - Oh, so you're just in need of a good internet browser (ie one that views all the pages IE can), Microsoft Office (I know Mac runs it, but it runs it like a turtle runs a marathon) and pretty much everything else a computer user needs. But that's OK, Macs are so great, because you can't get viruses on them. How great they must be....why would anyone put a virus on a machine that's useless anyhow?

Vista is a very sick snail imho.

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GAyou don't like MAC's then I take it?

Macs can't be beat for graphics work, but I'll take the upgradeable hardware versatility of a Microsoft based machines any day. XP is a great OS and easily defended with free software and a bit of common sense.
Mac's are way over-priced for what you get and apart from their notebooks, ugly as sin.

Vista is the slowest most power hungry OS ever released [forget it for gaming]. I'd like to run a duel boot XP / Linux OS, if Linux ever gets a [genuinely] user friendly version together.