heh come to think of it it has been 3 weeks since my lasgt spyware check and probably longer since the last time i defraged. . .= O

yeah i prefer norton over any of them but im too damn cheap to pay for any of them lol...i like mcafee but the virus scanner and firewall is so picky and seems like it fights with normal programs lol...but running it in safe mode is the best way to do it as Blood says

mcafee has big TCP/IP issues.

A common piece of spyware called "spysherrif" will put itself back in after a reboot, you can download a fix for it here: http://siri.geekstogo.com/SmitfraudFix.php beware it will remove you desktop wallpaper so make sure you have a copy of the pic.

Another common one is called Cool Web Search, you can find a remover here:
http://siri.geekstogo.com/SmitfraudFix.php that one should be safe to run.

You can also try hijack this, http://www.download.com/HijackThis/3...ml?tag=lst-0-1 be careful tho, this program can (and will) destroy parts of your registry if you use it incorrectly, best thing to do is scan, then do a google search on the filenames that it finds, then if you find that one of the files is bad then you remove it. Keep in mind certain spyware programs take control of your winsocket layers and removing them this way will destroy your internet connection. Use this as a last resort after you have backed up your important documents and you just wanna try something before you reformat.