PC Magazine recommends Spybot Search & Destroy. Is is better than Adaware (which is horribly slow, doesn’t delete the CE dialer that taunts me in the Programs menu and the C drive…)?
Of course, I’d probably not need any of this if my girlfriend was using freeBSD and browsing the web with lynx, but this is far from the case. She uses an old PC running Windows 98, applications like Odigo (contains Spyware) and Hotbar (IS spyware – also apparently unstable, so I uninstalled it), and she needs to use IE because most of the sites she visits don’t work that well otherwise).