Technobarbarian wrote:
>
> With the current generation of spyware even the
> combination of Spybot and Ad-aware is very weak protection. I suspect
> that previous recommendations were based on the fact that it's free
> and better than nothing for those unwilling to pay for more advanced
> tools.

Neither Spybot nor the free Ad-Aware pretend to offer "protection" from
spyware, except for Spybot's immunize function. They merely try to clean up
after the fact.
Just what are these "more advanced tools" that you like?