Adaware very helpfully points out all the spyware in my system and then does nothing to remove it. Maybe I am just missing a step??
Probably. Are you putting checkboxes in front of the stuff you want to get rid of? Otherwise, it'll tell you "No objects selected for removal. Continue?" and will do nothing...
dude there is a way to edit the registry in startup or some thing, thats how my brother fixed up everybodies computer :-P
Probably MSCONFIG, from what it sounds like.. I do that after cleaning a system, so it doesn't get "Cannot find file ISPYONJOO.EXE" errors on startup..