Windows Defender (Beta 2) is a free program that helps protect your computer against pop-ups, slow performance, and security threats caused by spyware and other unwanted software. It features Real-Time Protection, a monitoring system that recommends actions against spyware when it’s detected, and a new streamlined interface that minimizes interruptions and helps you stay productive.

For spyware solutions, Spybot Search & Destroy works very well. If you are willing to try Microsoft’s beta, you can also consider defender. Both are currently free.

Always remember that an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure. That said, do not visit unknown websites, open suspicious emails and attachments, or click on links that you don’t know what it’s for. Also, always keep your anti-spyware and antivirus programs on. These simple guidelines will save you from hours of headaches with pop-up ads and computer slow down.

Good luck and have a nice day!

go for microsoft antispyware beta.

Just download windows defender from microsoft.
(Windows Defender is the NEW Version of Microsoft Anti-Spyware Beta 1. This is Beta 2.)

Spy bot is free and Microsoft also has a beta version only for XP and above. There is Yahoo tool bar which has built in antispyware and adaware also which are free.

If you are computer literate then try to remove yourself by looking into the registry and associated dll files or down load hijackthis they have a forum and help people to removing spyware. Thats a big help because some spywares are so stubborn that spybot, ms, adware and yahoo antispywares don’t even recognize them.

If you search the net you will find less known programms some of them are spywares them selves and some take you to porn sites and you will get spywares from those sites.

You need to use more than one program, as they each do things others do not. The yahoo toolbar has an anti-spy program. Adaware (by Lavasoft), Spybot Search and Destroy, and Hijack This are all good ones too. They are free or have free versions.

Microsoft Anti spy ware is the best.

You can pay,or [act a fool] as to lose anyone with a brain.

I’ve tried Spybot and Adaware but I like Microsoft’s anti spyware best.

Ad-aware and Spybot both do an excellent job. I like Ad-aware best though. You can get them at download.com

Also I would recommend running both. Sometimes one catches what the other one missed. You might see something at the site about them detecting each other as spyware, but I haven’t had that problem.