# AVG, adaware, zonealarm, spyguard, spybot

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/avg-adaware-zonealarm-spyguard-spybot/120833>\
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**Created:** [August 27, 2004, 6:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/avg-adaware-zonealarm-spyguard-spybot/120833 "2004-08-27T18:52:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![cooleyo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8dc957/32.png) [@cooleyo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/cooleyo)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2004, 6:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/avg-adaware-zonealarm-spyguard-spybot/120833/1 "2004-08-27T18:52:30Z")

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Are AVG, adaware, zonealarm, spyguard, spybot search & destroy the be all, end-all of problem-solving on the topic of spyware, IE hijacking, and viruses?

Except for AVG, I have all of the aforementionned programs up and running, and yet, when I launch my homepage –_which is either google.ca or www2.sympatico.ca_–, it always opens up a little “pop-up” (which is actually just another IE window, which is located farther than the bottom right corner…when you right click–\>close it, you see it doing that movement from bottom right to the taskbar, then it shuts down). It’s a mere annoyance to have to close the pop up every 5 minutes or so of surfing, but it DOES mean there’s a hole in my system. Which I’d like to fix.

[_Oh, and uh, well, for a reason I won’t explain due to the rules on cracks and big macs, I can’t install the service pack 2 of windows XP…Would that be the problem? If so, anyone have any pointers to unofficial (read: not windows update) ways to install the service pack 2?_]