I am having all sorts of spam mail thru my comcast email account, plus
tons of pop-ups, and obviously tons of spyware.  I run at least two
popup and spyware programs, but
everytime my son gets on my computer it takes me approx 2 hrs - 2 days
to get it cleaned up again to where i even feel save accessing my
banking information, or even can access certain information.  The two
programs for spyware and adaware I run the most are Lavasoft Adaware
and Spybot Search & Destroy.  They work very well, but I still haven't
been able to clean all the spyware from my computer.

Besides no letting my son ever use my computer again, what would your
suggestions be to keep this from happening?

I switched to the Mozilla Firefox browser. worked great.  Plus, tabbed
browsing is WAAAAY Cool!

Also, in Spybot, did you "Innoculate?"

~~Cynthia

I tried the Mozilla browser and liked it. But actually thought it made
the problem worse, however I have nothing to base this on.  And yes I
did immunize in spybot.

do you have anymore suggestions?

Lavasoft is the best program for removing spyware. YOu just have to
make sure and keep it updated. Now for all of the pop ups. More than
likley if you are getting this many. Someone id either d/l crap,
opening e-mail attachments that our spyware  or going to sites that
install this on your computer. It shouldn't take ad-aware but 5-10
minutes to clean off all of the spyware. And it does reconize cookies
as spyware. So you may want to see what it is exactly. If you can post
anything it says you have but cookies I could help you remove it. Some
also can be deleted from your add/remove programs. You just have to
look for the offending software in there. You could also try a reg
cleaner on your system to help keep it clean. When it comes down to
it. No one is really completly safe against this kind od software. But
you can take preventive measures on your system to enshure you have as
little trouble as possible.

I do use Lavasoft all the time, but it doesn't catch everything. I
have no doubt that my son is going to websites that install this crap,
and I have even given him(as a user) no priviledges to install
programs.  But evidently the sites he visits will install apps without
Admin priviledges.  I could post plenty of stuff that I have found
from using other Spyware removal programs, and I can remove them
myself by searching thru the registry, my computer, etc. but that is
either very time consuming or very expensive because most of the
spyware apps that you can download and run, will show you the results,
but will not clean them off your computer unless you pay for them.  So
I end up looking at all the results and hunting them down on my PC and
getting rid of them.  As I said, I use Lavasoft Adaware and also
Spybot but even these two apps don't catch everything. So this is what
I have to go thru all the time.  I am looking for an answer that will
give me a specific application that does it all; spyware blocking,
spam filtering, etc.  But i'm not sure there is anything like that out
there.

You could create his own user account and set his security high on the
fire wall and his internet explorer security options.

Try regprot http://www.diamondcs.com.au/index.php?page=regprot

Microsoft anti-spyware (still beta) is showing good promise from a
user perspective: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=321cd7a2-6a57-4c57-a8bd-dbf62eda9671&DisplayLang=en

("validation" of MS-Windows is optional)

--
I am not ao official GA researcher.

Thanks for all of your suggestions.  It will take me a while to test
these applications, but I appreciate your input very much.  However, I
am looking for something that has already been tried and tested.