Spyware

I took my desktop computer in for service at a honest, reliable and
trustworthy shop. When I picked up my computer, the fellow there told
me he did a spyware scan of my hard drive using a free product called
Super Anti-Spyware and that it found about 40 pieces of spyware on my
computer.

This surprised me as I have 1) NOD32 anti-virus which seems to update
their signature files on my computer every few hours, 2) Outpost
Firewall Pro, firewall software, 3) a D-Link Ethernet Broadband
Router and I just started using 4) Ad-Aware and 5) Spybot Search and
Destroy. I keep all of those products up to date.

I understand that no single anti-spyware product will catch all
malicious software but I was lead to believe that Ad-Aware and Spybot
Search and Destroy were the Holy Grail of protection products. I
cannot understand why the products I use couldn't catch all that
spyware. I have a wired system - no wi-fi.

Any ideas wouyld be appreciated. Thanks.

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