"Abrasha" wrote in message
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Get rid of MS Internet Explorer, and you won't have to worry about
spyware, malware, browser hijacks, etc.

If you don't want to drop IE, at least get Ad-Aware and Spybot, Search &
Destroy.

Thanks for the thought; I know you mean well. The simple truth is,
anti-virus and anti-this'n'dat caused me more problems and grief than any
other computing mishap, including viruses and ad-ware, in more than 10 years
of cruising the web. Take a cruise over to www.sysinternals.com and build a
real toolkit. I know it's not for everyone, but there are other ways.
Autoruns.exe and procexp.exe identified the culprits in two minutes.
Excising them, alas, still required booting in safe-mode. Spyware stuff
can't do much better.

I recently tried Firefox/Mozilla. It's probably safe from the current
strains of infection, but it's also quite immune to useful, simple things
like wmv. No thanks.