>Yeah, I spent about 4 hours a few weeks ago to get rid of my spyware problems too. Now I'm running Spy Sweeper, McAfee Personal Firewall, and Secure IE (Winferno), hoping these will protect me better.
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>McAfee PF has caught some really nasty attacks - the XP firewall stops them too, but you can't see the details of what's coming after you, and those can be interesting.
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>About 95% are just nuisance probes - mainly adware, some strange pings, and the like. But once or twice a week I get attacked severely, the MPF event log registers a rapid succession of bright red attacks from numerous sources, all in the span of 2-3 minutes.
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>Interesting to see what's actually coming at you...

Well, that's frightening. I guess we'll have to continue to keep a close eye on all that.