i hate to differ with you but in some ways i disagree. you said "I hope they don't expect anyone to pay for it. If so, that would be like Firestone selling tires with holes, and selling optional patch kits. "

you have a point, but whenever a program or something is invented, its going to have flaws that people will take an advantage of, Why? because people are asses and do it because they can. I honestly think microsoft has done a fairly decent job. they do provide security and system updates with 'Automatic updates'. If microsoft eventually makes MS anti-spy where you have to pay for it, it will be worth it to some people, and not to others. it's all just based on opinion.

You also said "that if people knew what they were doing that they wouldn't get spyware. I disagree. My Windows machines are behind a firewall, with both A/V and firewall software running on each machine. I only use IE for Windows update. I've trained my wife to only use Opera. Yet, about once per month I still find one or two items that Ad-Aware thinks are sypware. Of course, my linux box never has this problem. " well i happen to disagree with that too (sorry im not tryin to contradict you or anything im jsut saying my opinion). I personally use a firewall, AVG free, Ad-aware, and spybot. Even with updates ive had minimal if not any spyware intrusions. Sure with education there will still be small little pests on your computer, but its not going to do much damage if you update definitions and scan regularly.

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