how do you protect against ad/spy and other wares
 

Simple question, how do you protect your computer against those things ?

For me;
Internet Explorer:
- -Only use it when it doesn't work with Opera
- -1944 sites and lots of ActiveX and cookies are in the bad list
- -strict settings
- -try to keep it up to date
Opera:
- -no Java
- -restricted Javascript
Mail (M2):
- -Built-in spam blocker (moves it to another folder)
- -I-Tags are blocked by virusscanner (Avast)
Firewall (Sygate Personal Firewall):
- -does what is should do
Program I use:
- -Ad-aware
- -SpyBot Search & Destroy
- -Spywareblaster
- -Adsalert
- -Antivir personal Edition (only on demand scan)
- -Avast Antivirus (on acces & on demand)


For the rest, I use my brains (yes, I have that too :^D )

IE: none
Firewall: none
AV: Norton AV 8 corporate, server + clients up to date
Mail: Spambayes

mozila firefox instead of IE
adaware
spybot s&d

Opera

Norton AV 2003 Pro

Zonalarm Pro 5

Adaware and Spybot

No Spam protection, I don't recieve spam :D

Ad Aware and Spybot S&D

PopupKiller

IE6

I think that's all...

Adaware
IE6 and Firefox
Kazaa Lite K++

No spyware at all, only some tracking cookies but that's no big deal. No spam too :).

firefox
norton antivirus 2004
norton personal firewall 2002
adaware6
no ie en definately no outlook

Ad-aware
Spybot

No other protection as I :

1: don't receive much spam in my Outlook account
2: don't visit warez/pr0n sites :p :p

adware
sygate personal firewall 5.5pro
firefox
norton 2002

Long time I had spyware on my comp and long is about 1 year.

firefox instead of IE
ad-aware
norton AV2004
last mc affee firewall

firefox instead of IE cause of the popups and auto download @ IE in virus links on mIRC :)

that's all, firewall's and virusscan prog's make computers go slow and i don't like that, server is firewall for all the house and roxx @ doing it :)

my router + modem are firewall , my server has a firewall and all the other pc's :)

so i guess i am a bit safe :)

mozila firefox instead of IE
adaware
spybot s&d
spywareblaster
Kerio firewall
Norton Antivirus corporate edition version 9.

against popups : i'm using firefox as main browser (popup killer inc),
googlebar installed in IE against evil popups.
anti spyware : spybot search & destroy + adaware
virusscanner : kaspersky
i'm also behing a router , and i'm not using a software firewall on my pc's