banmicrosofttoo

I have noticed a big decrease in spyware infections, zero criticals since installing Privoxy (my average per day was at least 20 through IE) using Adaware. The only thing I have noticed in my Tor window is it telling me i need a socks4a while i am using something like IRC. It doesn't seem to be a problem but I was wondering if i need another program other than mIRC. I'm quite new to this.