I'm on Windoes XP Pro, and finally installed SP2 a few days ago, and noticed  after that when I run AdAware, Ewido, and Super Anti-Spyware they dont find ANY spyware at all, before when I ran these programs there would always be at least 4-5 of general spyware, even with my firewall, ect, Ewido in particular would always find about 10 items, now nothing, is it possible when I installed SP2 it messed with these programs and I would have to reinstall them? I did notice after installing SP2 that a few programs were messed up and had to be reinstalled, like Microsoft Office, think that might have happened here? I understand SP2 protects against Spyware better, but it seems odd to me they would find NOTHING every time I run them, any thoughts?Did you check to see if the programs were properly configured?Configured in what sense? These programs pretty much run themselves....As in are they doing a full scan, are all the folders tagged, etc..Yeah, I always run them in full scan mode, takes a LONG time but I'm kinda paranoid about spyware and stuff on my computers...If you are running scans regularly and they are not turning up anything wrong and you are worried chances are you are paranoid...
Maybe your right, I still think its strange how I went from 5-10 infections every scan to zero though...fullbug, keep in MIND that the major benefit of SP2 is better security.  To quote Top 10 Reasons to Deploy Windows XP Service Pack 2: "Windows XP SP2 is, first and foremost, about helping you stay secure."  In other words, you should EXPECT to see less frequent finding of adware/spyware when you run your adware/spyware programs.Thanx for the info, I guess I was worried over nothing.... You should be worried if you're still using INTERNET Explorer, though.  No way, I use Avant and Firefox...Good, good. How about Thunderbird?  I have never checked out Thunderbird, pretty happy with Avant though, they have a new feature when you can upload your bookmarks from any computer, thats a feature I havent seen anywhere else yet....Thunderbird is an E-mail client, though. Isn't Avant a browser?

I like EVOLUTION as well, which is a free Linux (Ubuntu) E-mail client.Yeah, Avant is a browser, I thought thats what you were talking about, are you saying using something like Yahoo E-mail can cause problems?