Spybot is excellent, free, and has been severely ripped off.

Here's a review. (You can download it from there too,)

Here's the Spybot website.

There IS a warning (as in this thread) that programs that require the stupid adware/spyware may not work if you ban it from your machine. If it's your ISP, you're probably stuck with it.


--- Spybot website link fixed. ---
---Jeff (PA)---