On Thu, 08 May 2008 19:12:56 -0700, Ike <binarydotike@gmail.com>
wrote:

>Avast! or AVG (free) or NOD (pay)
> plus
>Spybot
> plus
>GMER
> plus
>An occasional HiJack This scan and 3rd party
> analysis of the results

I like to do some pre-emptive blocking with Spywareblaster and the
Hosts file from mvpshosts. Also, use noscript and adblock in Firefox.
I have Spybot and use it to scan on occasion but with pre-emptive
blocking it never finds any adware or such.

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm