>I use AVG and I did a test. I ran the full scan last night before I shutdown the laptop. This morning I booted the laptop, opened IE and went to my Gmail, Yahoo WebMessenger and UT. I then ran a full scan again and it found about 20 malware cookies, etc. Whassup with that? People like us know what we are doing, how does the average Joe keep up with this stuff?

You need something that prevents you from getting the stuff in the 1st place - ad-aware has a pro version that does this...