Don't forget your anti-virus as well. AVG from www.grisoft.com. For killing spyware - Lavasoft's adaware is also free. If running XP the Microsoft Anti-spyware Beta does an excellennt job. The demo of spyware sweeper, and their online freebie scan does as a good job of finding nastys, but doesn't delete the offending entry. But you can mannually delete these keys from the registry if you knowing what you're lloking for doing. Forget Nortons and Symantecs slugware.

Pinky - you left the lens cap of your mind on again.