if i hadn't read your post, i wouldn't have remembered ad-aware (even though it's on my desktop)
funny how we try to take care of each other, eh :-)
In case you don't already know...you can get it to run each time you boot up. So, there's really no need to remember it's there except to not delete it...
Oh yeah, I think we all try to get the word out about not web surfing "in the nude".