Coding Horror has published a great, detailed post on how to clean spyware off of your machine if it ever gets infested. 

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000888.html

The directions he outlines are probably a little overwhelming for the average computer user at home.  For average computer users that I know, when they ask about protecting against adware/spyware, I usually point them to Ad-Aware and Spybot.  Installing and running those on a regular basis should keep adware/spyware at bay.

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