WOW!!! Very good thread but too many pages for me, it's very overwhelming. I can only read a few. I'll have to come back to learn more.

I use AdAware right now and like it but I don't know if it catches everything, as far as I can see it does. If I get a spam e-mail, I bounce it back so they think it is not a legit addy that they sent it to. Of course, sometimes that doesn't help when they spoof the from addy, so for them, I just delete.