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Originally Posted by ryanfx
The best way to do it is a hardware router / firewall and then get a good piece of software anti-virus. Unfortunately anti-virus' are prone to be system hogs as it is the nature of what they do. They are constantly scanning. If you want you can fiddle with their options so they scan less, but then you would be compromising the safety of your computer. I don't even think that answered your question but that was my $.02
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I agree 100%.
Start with a hardware firewall and then go from there. I have found that SpyBot S&D's system monitor is lightwieght enough to not be a PITA, and it also alerts you when registry changes are made so you can deny them if it's a spyware attack. My bitch is that most antivirus-antiadware programs just (attempt to) fix a problem after it already happens. By then you could have overwritten DLL's and such that can't be undone without reinstalling your OS. S&D's monitor is really awesome in that it stops stuff from becoming a problem beforehand while still being OK hanging around in memory.