Merlin.
I agree with your assessment of SpySweeper (wait for it) except for one problem I had.? My ISP is MSN (SpySweeper is free to MSNers) and I do not know if that is why I had the problem.
When I enabled the 'Common Ad Sites Shields' under 'Host File Shield' most of the graphic images/icons turned into the famous 'little red X' in place of the images.? It even held open (continued to try and download) a Macromedia Flash Player movie.? I disabled that one shield and all the images returned.
Funny thing though, I wrote to the MSN support team (who urge members to install SpySweeper) about the 'little red X' thingy.? The gave me their guess at a solution (twice) with no resolution to the problem.? I ended up telling them the solution I came up with, they did not respond.
Being cursious (to a fault), I was wondering if my problem was an isolated one or are there others out there with a case of the 'little red X's'? ?:lol

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Later Dude
Rod-O-Matic
