Spammers are not as bad as the people that put out little programs that take over your browsers and you can never get to the page you want to without having to click through a search page.
If you have ever had this happen you know it is worse than any spam could ever be.
It is almost as if the company that sells the only program that can fix this problem, is the originator of the problem itself.
I only found one program that will get rid of this type of ad/spy/malware it is at www.the..... now that would be me spamming this board and I wont do it.
I'm not much of a computer person, but I got rid of one of those programs by reinstalling Windows.