spyware removal/firewall help please

[SWBreeze]

I'm having some trouble with my Blueyonder 750k connection, it seems to have gone really slow over the past few days, I spoke to BY tech support who got me to do a netstat -a command which apparently should only come back with about 3-4 established results, I have about 20, he said it was probably spyware, I've run ad-aware to remove these but I seem to get a lot back very soon after. Also is there a list/guide as to what progs to allow access to the 'net, I'm wondering if some of my firewall settings are not tight enough. any help greatly appreciated

[Violator]

If you're using Spybot Search & Destroy and/or AdAware you can normally safely elimate any spyware they find.

What firewall are you using? And have you tried doing a speedtest to check your upload/download speeds?. There's a good one here (http://www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/speedtest.asp).

[budfox]

You should also try A-squared (http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4281.html), Spybot (http://www.webattack.com/get/spybot.html) and i would also install Spywareblaster (http://www.webattack.com/get/spywareblaster.html)

[SWBreeze]

thanks I'll try some of these, I'm using mcafee firewall