How to fix your computer

I recalled reading this back near the time it was posted, and decided to go look for it again since I had some trouble with adware, etc. last night. This happened because I was using an ancient version of Internet Explorer on the old laptop we picked up recently. I actually just went through and manually found and deleted most of the really annoying things that were running, but Ad-Aware turned up a lot more. I didn't do everything on the list, because I'm not that concerned and it's not our primary computer anyway, but Firefox should help a lot.