DISQUS

Well, I tested it out some, and discovered that as an administrator (Which you should NEVER run as), you can indeed kill SVCHOST with this util. Most people shouldn't be running as admin. Running the desktop as a normal user account and using runas (Hold down "Shift" while right clicking on an executable or link to executable) should be sufficent for any normal use and even most installations.

Also, is it possible to edit recipes? I'd like to make a note of this in the main writeup.

Hmm.. I've never seen that require a reboot. You can replace the asterisk with a regular expression that matches the process names of the spyware (e.g. tskill w* for wintoolsa and wsup, the wintools daemons). You can also run "tskill *" and then "Shutdown -a" to prevent a shutdown, if you can bring up the task manager fast enough.

You can also use the built in "TSKILL" command in XP, which is much easier to access when spyware is redirecting internet requests.

True, some say that AdAware is spyware itself. They also tend to run competing products that cost more money. I've used both AdAware and Spybot for two years in both testing and real enviroments, and found no indication of problems with them. This has not been the case for 90% of the other anti-spyware programs, even with the registered versions. It all depends on trust, and in my experience these two products have been the most trustworthy.