Many people know about AdAware and possibly my favourite Spybot Search and Destroy http://spybot.safer-networking.de/ , but I was wondering if there are any others that are worthy of being checked out.

To be honest, I've never had to. I'm usually very critical of what I install, and always make sure it's got no ads. But there's been a few slip-ups alright, hence I use www.agnitum.com which alerts me if any program attempts to access the internet without my knowledge, to get ads or whatever.

Otherwise I use Opera which does have an ad, but I've Outpost set up so that it can only show one, it's prevented from downloading any others. And I recommend lite versions of file-sharing software which are usually very good, but not perfect either.

Outpost has a plug-in which can stoip banner ads being fetched, and also a pop-up preventer which is magic! And I'm not being paid by them....

GF