Our budgets are limited. What are the must-haves for spyware if I can spend a lot?
Ed Tittel: For new desktops running Windows XP SP2, a combination of the Microsoft Antispyware package (currently available as a free beta) along with some other good free antispyware (such as LavaSoft Ad-Aware SE or Spybot-Search & Destroy) should be sufficient, as long as administrators are also willing to tweak or establish group policy controls to lock down Internet Explorer a bit from its defaults. The built-in IE security components do at least an adequate job, if not better. For older desktops running Windows, the same anti-spyware combination will also work, but admins will want to add a pop-up blocker (both Google and Yahoo offer good free toolbars that include this functionality) and a BHO (browser Helper Object) handler (BHO Demon, www.definitivesolutions.com is shareware that does an excellent job at providing this kind of protection) to match the same kind of coverage that’s built into Windows XP SP2.
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