I have used AVG Anti Virus, Zone Alarm Firewall, Spy-bot Search and Destroy and Ad Aware both spyware killers for years. They are all free for personal use and I have had no trouble with Viruses Trojans Hackers etc. I have just upgraded to AVG free 8.0 and all seems good so far. Zone Alarm allows a lot of personal configuration unlike the Windows Firewall. They can all be downloaded from http://www.download.com/ I also use Windows Defender from the Microsoft site. It is safe to use two anti-spy products but never use more than one A/V as it can cause conflicts. You should run A/V and anti spy weekly. Hope this helps

I like AVG 8.0 Antivirus, but if it’s not working for you, you might want to try Avast! Regardless of which one you pick, I would also supplement it with ThreatFire.
As for Antyspyware, I like Spyware Doctor Starter Edition (active), and Spybot (passive).

try a norton protector norton is really good just go to the website and download one of the programs…i think they’ll first give u a 60 day free trial