What is your anti-virus program? Does it update itself? Does it have a spyware component? Most programs do.

Here's a few good spyware ones that are popular.

Stay to the left on the page here, and make sure you download only the FREE one, NOT the "free trial".
http://www.lavasoft.com/single/trialpay.php


http://download.cnet.com/Spybot-Sear...-10122137.html

This is AVG 9.0. It does viruses and spyware.
http://download.cnet.com/AVG-Anti-Vi...-10320142.html