i thought you and terminator was the same person, because you both have a penguin picture.
Quite some stuff these days. In 2002, malicious software and drive-by-downloads were a joke!
in 2003 i dont think the windows firewall and microsoft updates was on by default, and i was going to warez sites and other bad sites and got lots of malware and a dialer, i finally got rid of the dialer and i went crazy and deleted all parts of the dialer i found, i was deleting it manually, but i dont recommend anybody deleting what they think are the malware manually because it may be files needed by the operating system.
i use antivir, and has stopped using avg because of linkscanner or what it is called, because it slowed down my google searches.
i dont trust superantispyware, but maybe without a reason and is not using it, spybot seems it is made from the heart (it is good i mean) and not for making money, i have thought about donating to spybot but i am not sure how i do it.
i had kazaa and didnt now it had included malware, but i saw something kalled gain on my computer wich was gator, and then someone downloaded ad-aware on my computer and it found lots of malware, then i visited a site called spywareinfo and learned a lot about malware from there, and there i found spybot and spywareblaster i think. and learned about the hostsfile from other sites, and in this year 2008 i think, i joined my first security forum and that was hphosts forum and made a thread there about spybot and the hostsfile. it is here if someone is interested:
http://forum.hosts-file.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=430
is revo a point to have for people when not installing and uninstalling software all the time? i see it has other features too.
other firewalls than windows firewall is annoying i think, and windows firewall has never let anything in on my computer, but it lets everything go out.