For preventative measures, I believe these should be mentioned:
Lavasoft's AdAware
Spybot Search and Destroy
Spywareblaster
It's been a while since I've actively used those, but they were gold back in the day. Ran the first two at 3am once a week. Updated the third one once a month (You can purchase autoupdates for $10).
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