Don't buy Epson either then.
Epson Printer Status Monitor always tries to connect when it's just been used or is about to be used. It was installed with the printer that I got from my mum, so I think it's a good 4-5 years old.
Granted, Ad-Aware does occasionally leave the odd cookie behind here, but the new Ad-AwareSE 1.05 has picked up on everything so far, looks like it's even solved the Alexia problem like Spybot S&D does.