MailWasher bless it gets rid of the trash - been in for a couple of months now and I don't know how I lived without. The extra filters help a lot and so does the autocheck with the Spamcop list. The deluge started about a year ago for me (now running at 1:26 normal:spam) - I wonder what made it reach crit. mass?
McAfee's Internet Security does an excellent job with ads and popups.
I notice that only when spam starts to hurt M$ on it's home turf does it suddenly get all righteous and start doing something about it.
But M$ always figures out a way to turn things to it's advantage - expect them to ram through a new spam resistant MIME/OLE email standard that can only be generated and read by (yep, you guessed it) an M$ OS/mailapp.
Wait for it guys and girls.....