>>On my machine I have spysweeper, mcaffee firewall, NAV. I finally got rid of a nasty adware by Odysseus Marketing.
>>Last night I ran spysweeper again and surprise surprise I had several adware found on my machine. I have no clue how they got there. Now that you mention Eastern Europe block, I do go to some news/sports sites.
>>I am still trying to find out how I got the adware installed.
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>Well that's one of the big problems with some of this adware junk - it installs without the user's knowledge. As matter of fact there is a bill in the Senate right now that's about to be passed to prevent companies from doing that.
>Anyway...if you dont have ad-aware installed you should do so. I think it's better than the spysweeper, spyhunter, spybot search & destroy - ad-aware updates their reference file much more often.
>They have a free version you can get from here...
>www.lavasoft.de

FYI - you might find this interesting....
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,63983,00.html