I've been free of IE for over a year, prolly two. I also run Spybot. I scan about every two months if I remember too. When I do I find very little problems thanks to MozillaFirebird and the ability to stay away from programs that contain adware or spyware.
A friend came to me and told me to help her cause she has a bad pop up problem. I pointed her to Moz and Spybot and told her what to do. She later asked me to help cause she was intimidated by Spybot but used Mozilla.
I brought her computer home with me and ran Spybot and checked out her IE settings. To my horror Spybot found 396 entries. 396!! This computer is only 7 months old! Is IE that fucked up that so many sites can infiltrate someones computer so bad? Aside to installing Kaaza I saw no other problems. IE had to have been the root of all these problems. And the fact that the person using the computer is clueless. Can people get that fucked up by just browsing the internet with IE?
It makes me a little angy so sorry about the rant
...and perhaps bad grammar :P