Spyware fixers re-visited

[Mongrel]

I gave up on both spybot and Ad-Aware, I just use Hijack this now.

The learning curve is a bit steep, and I still have to manualy remove some stuff from the Registry, but there is a nice feeling of security when you know what is running at all times.

A handy site for checking Hijackthis logs is

http://hijackthis.de/

. It'll tell you what is and isn't safe with a good degree of accuracy. Even when it's not sure it'll do it's best to find out what the app is and a suggested course of action