1. I have not been able to reproduce MSAS "ignoring" the gator spywares. 2. Spywareblaster is awesome of course. 3. I've never had a good experience with Norton's antispyware/internet security line. Even trying to uninstall them they leave crap everywhere, they just put themselves so deep all over the system. After uninstalling there are still startup entries everywhere, services, folders, registry keys, and other craps.