Gracias, are you familiar with ceres? I've googled it. Apparently everyone hates these damn things but they're hard as hell to get rid of. As far as I've read and experienced, ceres is immune to anti-spyware software.
Humm Pop Ups, I don't ever get them at all. I use Maxthon and have spybot's blockers up and i hardly ever get anything. Maybe one every week and i'm on the internet a lot.