Good spyware instructions

Computer was acting funny yesterday--while I typed in Word, the window kept becoming inactive. I'd look at the screen after typing a sentence or two, and see that only the first word was actually there. I had to click back in the page to make it active again. Very frustrating.

Google led me to this page, where I saw the advice to do a big spyware/virus scan. The instructions from Chevy, about halfway down, are very useful, particularly in combination with the page referred to at greyknight17.com.

In short, the process (I've modified slightly) is: run Ad-Aware (program #1) then run SpyBot (program #2), and run the local virus scanner then an online virus scanner called TrendMicro. (All of these are free downloads.)

So far the problem has not recurred, and my wireless connection is a little more stable than usual. I'm blogging this so that I'll remember, next time, but hope this helps someone else.