The latest version of this antispyware from Lavasoft is out now. Ad-Aware 2008 promises an improved threat detection, enhanced rootkit removal system and faster updates.
This version is an improvement from the 2007 version which contains lots of bugs. Most of the times I cant even download the latest signatures updates from its server.
When I install the 2008 version, it simply cant proceed because the 2007 version was detected as not even installed in my machine when I tried to remove it through Add/Remove Program.
I have to manually killing its process in the Task Manager before resorting to deleting the whole folder to get a clean and complete uninstallation.
Few years back, it is the only free and reliable antispyware available. Now, there are many alternatives of free antispyware available that I will review in the future.
Besides the antivirus integration, other features disabled in the free version include the real-time Ad-Watch guard, heuristics scanning, the scheduler, and plug-ins. What a dummy! At the moment, I have not yet found the ways to get the full paid version. Maybe later. I would only recommend it as a secondary detection engine to complement my Bitdefender Total Security 2008 which I will discuss later.
So far, I have not encountered any problems with the latest version. It has 6 skins to choose from and simple to use due to probably many of its paid features are disabled sigh...
Its available for download here
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