04-07-2010, 10:25 PM
OK, I posted a short somewhat smartass answer, though it is accurate, but the best thing you can do to prevent _catastrophic_ spyware problems is to run in normal user mode, not admin.
We switched here at work and users have been bitten by spyware but since our contract-supported users are running sans admin, the cleanup is easy. Remove a few .exe files from the user's temp directory and a few entries in HKEY_LOCAL_USER and you're back up and running.
We don't use any antispyware here and most people use IE7 so we're relatively exposed but the problems have not been bad for the users not using admin.
We switched here at work and users have been bitten by spyware but since our contract-supported users are running sans admin, the cleanup is easy. Remove a few .exe files from the user's temp directory and a few entries in HKEY_LOCAL_USER and you're back up and running.
We don't use any antispyware here and most people use IE7 so we're relatively exposed but the problems have not been bad for the users not using admin.