Man... I tell you what.... I finally got sick of the daily battle against spyware and went with RedHat 9 on my main PC. I can't say it's been totally painless, but with a few annoyances, I haven't booted into Windows in 2 weeks for anything other than a few games. I'm thinking of blocking the Windows side of the PC at the firewall -- no access, at all.
It really seems to be the only way to secure it, anymore. It's hard enough setting firewall rules and patches to keep the 5kr1p7 kiddies out, but then you add in having to keep it from phoning home all the damn time... It just isn't worth it... ;-) I'll put up with technical glitches, but when I have to fight my OS over politics, I draw the line. Make mine "Free as in speech," please. I've had enough financial and moral bankruptcy for a while.