best anti spyware and codec pack

My opinion is just one anti-spyware app isn't enough, I run several personally. If one of them misses a detection or can't remove an infection, the other often can or will pick it up. I'd at least have Ad-Aware Personal at http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/ and also Windows Defender at http://www.microsoft.com/athome/se [...] fault.mspx as both are completely free. Spybot Search and Destroy is another good free one. http://www.safer-networking.org/

In regards to your codec question, I'd suggest DLing and using mplayer and it's separate codec DL, however it's not a simple install as it is a free linux player. It even plays Real Media filetypes, amongst everything else. Otherwise, you can try finding a "K-Lite Codec Pack", I used to use that a year back. I've uninstalled every last codec as mplayer only needs it's own pack, no installations required. http://www.mplayerhq.hu/

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