Prevention is better than cure...
I run my PC with Black Ice set to paranoid and never open e-mail attachments unless they are from myself. I have NAV with auto-updating and use Folder Guard to lock my personal data files and private folders. Despite all this I also use Adaware and The Cleaner regularly and still find spyware and trojans aboard my PC. Presumably they come in through web pages, suitably disguised within images etc. so as to avoid detection and then operate through the browser - which of course has permission to access the internet.
Does all this Spam really sell enough Viagra to be worth the effort? Are all those pimply faced youths really sporting 18" penises from the pills they buy on the internet? Has anybody eliminated all their debts, got a cheap mortgage, won a huge prize in a competition they never even entered or helped Emperor Bokassa's widow get her millions out of Africa? Are there enough gullible computer users out there to make all this crap profitable? It seems so - my SPAM reception rate is already over 120 a day.
Now we only have to wait two years for Uncle Bill to fix it. Thats it? M/S rides to the rescue? I despair of there ever being foolproof protection against the advertising industry. Apart from boycotting the advertised products and publically exposing the perpetrators as the fraudsters they are that is...
Thank you to all the Techies here who try to help the rest of us less gifted mortals to keep our machines running and useable. I for one appreciate the advice I find here...