Ok, I have been doing this researches for quite some times and trying many spyware remover softwares before. My recommendation is installing zone alarm anti spyware and ad-adware SE together at one time. This 2 spyware removers are the best now.

Besides that, install McAfee SIteAdvisor in order to guide u from surfing the net and preventing you from entering some dangerous websites. I had one bad experience before where I entered a website that I thought I can get my spyware software there. Who knows my pc get hijacked and whenever I tried to online, my ip will redirect to its website.I downloaded its so called spyware removal and in fact, my pc get infected by 70++ of viruses and 70++ malware!! My pc hang. I have forgotten the website url. Anyway, McAfee SiteAdvisor is one of my recommendation.

The following websites are free virus or spyware scanners.Hope it helps.

a) www.pandasoftware.com (Find activescan)
b) www.kaspersky.com (find virusscanner) ==kaspersky is popular now although sometimes there might be some fake alarms.
c)www.housecall.trendmicro.com====pc cillin
d) security.symantec.com. find virus scanner as well=====norton.

For service pack 2, they require u to download active x into your pc before the scan starts. So, enable your active X and let them install some small size files into your pc first.

Gd luck.
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This post has been edited by geforce1982: Sep 26 2006, 03:57 PM

spyware search&destroy v1.4 is no longer updated since year 2005. So they might not be able to clean the recent spywares.

Correct me if I'm wrong.
thanks.