Looks ok, you have an awful lot of anti-spy programs running all the time or running as a service; WinPatrol, Search & Destroy TeaTimer, AVG Anti-Spyware Guard, a-squared Anti-Malware, Ad-Aware 2007...all of these on top of your anti-virus program and firewall.
If I were you I would reduce them to only TWO at most and use the others for scanning only. I am a believer of "less is more" and too many can #1 slow the computer and #2 actually fight against each other and let something slip through.
If it were my choice I would disable for sure the Spybot TeaTimer, a-squared Anti-Malware, and the AVG Anti-Spyware Guard and consider dumping AdAware2007 (this has caused some problems for some). The absolute best, in my book anyway, for Preventing the installation of ActiveX-based spyware, adware, browser hijackers, dialers, and other potentially unwanted software.
Blocking spyware/tracking cookies in Internet Explorer and Mozilla/Firefox.
Restricting the actions of potentially unwanted sites in Internet Explorer is SpywareBlaster AND it does NOT run in the background.
I use no anti-spy background programs, I use my anti-virus, my firewall and keep SpywareBlaster updated, including Restricted sites and my computer stays clean. I use Spybot for scanning and that is it. I have AVG Anti-spy on my computer and do occasionally scan with it just to check but otherwise nothing else. I keep my temp files to a minimum, only enable 1st party cookies and have had no problems whatsoever.
This is all up to you of course, just a suggestion.


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