As suggested in earlier posts, use Adaware and Spybot Search and Destroy . Plus, use the Kazaa Lite program which has also been linked in previous posts.

As for "stealing" music. I have downloaded many songs off Napster and Kazaa. I have also went on to buy the albums of certain groups that I first heard of, courtesy of Napster and Kazaa. (Evanescence, Green Wheel, Tool, Box Car Racer, Creed, Chevelle, Black Label Society, to name a few) To some big name bands like Metallica, and the earlier poster, Kazaa is nothing but theft, pure and simple. Yet to some unsigned act who does the local club scene year in and year out and whose name isn't recognized 100 miles down the road, something like Kazaa is the greatest damn form of advertising they could possibly hope for.