Ad-Aware improves for 2008 Posted by Seth Rosenblatt from CNET.com This year's major update to user favorite Ad-Aware looks to be more of a course correction from some of the missteps in the 2007 version. The adware and malware detection engine has undergone a significant overhaul, resulting in faster scan times, and the interface has been changed. Ad-Aware 2008 offers several improvements, including skins such as this dark-themed one. (Credit: CNET Networks) The changes to the detection and removal engine will be noticeable to long-time Ad-Aware users, with Lavasoft touting faster scan times and better rootkit detection. New users should notice that the app performs faster than integrated antivirus and antimalware programs, and that's because only the paid version of Ad-Aware comes with the new antivirus engine. That's great news for users of Ad-Aware Pro and Ad-Aware Plus, but it's the free version that has 292 million downloads and that we're looking at today. The app's updater is no longer permanently on, and instead runs in your system's background only if you activate it--eliminating one of my big problems with last year's model. The interface improvements include six skins, cleanly designed tabbed navigation for each of the program's main functions, and easy-to-see red X's and green check marks to indicate a features status. Besides the antivirus integration, other features disabled in the free version include the realtime Ad-Watch guard, heuristics scanning, the scheduler, and plug-ins. Although Ad-Aware detects and removes malware with ease, I hesitate to recommend it as anything more than a secondary detection engine considering that many free competitors offer more features and similar, if not stronger, levels of effectiveness. I updated today, the scanning does seem less laggy when i restore the windows, compared to back then when it caused major lag....But dunno if it has any problems or what. EDIT: Faster scan time my ass...this shit seems slower.
WHOAAA ANOTHER UPDATE I GOT 2007 NOT THAT LONG AGO WOR... .... HMMM....KUNG KUNGGG...IT IT UBBBBBER SLOW...?!?!...
the scanning took me 2X or more in length than the 2007 version, dunno if it's first time running it or whatever...but also it picks up more infections i guess....
ye ad-aware is a fairly gd program for removal of spyware and stuff but i don't use it anymore. hmm...i guess i can't be bothered and just rely on my security suite to detect everything and ccleaner to clean all cookies and such.
if the scanning time is a little longer but picks all the bugs then i would say it much more worth the wait then 2x the speed and not picking up all of them.....=\
ye u shouldn't rele complain about free software and besides if the scanning is long, just use the previous version.
i got that 2gb Ballistix thumpin in my case.. headbang2 run it and forget it.. lol dont sit there n wait for it to complete..
lol dude norton is just a virus scanner...ad-aware takes out some of those trackers and shit like that.
dunno, haven't used norton for ages but perhaps 360 includes everything otherwise why would it be called 360.
HAD TO GET 2008 AS THE OLD 2007 WOULD UPDATE OR WHUTEVER.....BUT IT SEEMS SLOWERR....-doh DO ANY OF YOU USE NOADWARE.....JUST WONDERING IF THAT NEEDED NEW ONE TOO....?!?!.... THE ONE ON MY COMP NOWS...
