Spyware is a top concern for any business or office

CNET Networks conducted a survey in March 2005 which indicates that enterprise organizations rank anti-spyware protection among their top three IT priorities this year. And no wonder since malicious spyware disrupts productivity and compromises information security. System slowdowns, higher support costs, and lost productivity can all result from the presence of spyware on employee computers. It can also create breaches in our network security, can go undetected by traditional antivirus scanners, can infiltrate system registries and memory, and can install hundreds of files and processes onto your computer.

All this to say that your workplace should utilize anti-spyware solutions and I recommend you do the same on your computers at home.

You may want to review Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) for use at home:
microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software

For those who are interested, below is a summary of the survey:

Key Findings of the Spyware Survey