Safe surfing for non-computer-specialists?

Spent almost three hours removing spyware from my mom's Win XP box. Thought she'd be fine as long as she didn't answer yes to any installations (I know I am :-) ), but those dialogs can be kinda tricky.

Found that Ad-Aware apparently isn't up to speed right now, Spybot found alot more evil files and has realtime Internet Explorer protection (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=mirrors). I also found free antivirus called AVG (http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php). And embarrasingly enough, the XP firewall wasn't activated.

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