Ad-aware Reviews

Ad-Aware's most recent edition is "Ad-Aware Anniversary Edition 8" it is a free program which provides solid protection against spyware and malware. It has many improved features from since it previous version such as: *Ad Watch Live: which runs silently in the background of your PC and blocks malicious programs from starting ...

For many years Lavasoft's Ad-Aware has been the defacto tool for removing those horrible mishaps where you've accidentally downloaded a piece of nasty spyware or malware. Software is very straight forward to use, either you a quick scan or a full scan and then you click the great big Scan Now button to scan. This is eventually followed ...

Ad-aware is a spyware and ad removal program that I use as part of my regular anti virus and software programs along with AVG, Spybot and CCleaner. It's surprising good for a free program, and you get a lot of computer experts recommending it, so if I was into that kind of thing I'd buy the extended version of this rather than any of ...

----What is Spyware------ In case you didn't know, the range of products made by Lavasoft, are designed to seek and remove programs which monitor your actions without your knowledge or permission. These pieces software are collectively called "spyware" and include, malicious and invasive software that may harm your computer, ...

Just over a year ago I found out that, sometimes, when you visit websites, small programs are accepted by your computer without your knowledge. These small programs are able to track what websites you visit and what software you use and send the information to marketing companies so they can target you with junk mail. Some programs can also log ...

There are many reviews on this already, but here is mine from a Technical Professional. I used this utility religiously. Some people say it doesn't perform well, but you must use it right! This utility best performs if installed, updated, and ran from safe mode in each account. It is even better to run it twice over. Seems like a lot of ...

A free program that completing wipes spyware from your personal computer. A very popular choice for everyone on the internet, I accidently found it when looking at the most popular downloads on www.download.com, and how the hell did I get along with out it! I was shocked and amazed at what this program found on my pc, and luckily this sweet little ...

My Pc was running slow for a few months and yet I performed de-frags, error checks, disk cleanup and all the neccessary tasks for a slow performing PC. I then came across Ad-Aware and installed it. After AD-Aware had perfromed a full system scan, it had found 393 malicious scripts/adware/trackers and all sorts (not many as opposed to some of ...

I got my first home computer just over a year ago, it was totally awesome, I could use a computer in my room for the first time ever. We eventually bought an AOL broadband account (what a big regret that was), and I was finally on the net. I knew nothing about firewalls or anti-virus, so I went without internet security for about a week, BIG ...

Any of you who have read any of my opinions, will realise my PC has been totally unusable. This has been the direct result of little hidden programs that have found their way onto my machine. From different sources, but onto it none the less. I was under the impression that having anti virus software on my PC and ...

I used to have terrible problems with my pc slowing down from time to time, its not the best mean machine out there but it was getting ridiculous. That’s when I asked one of my more computer gifted friends over MSN messenger (life saver) if he knew the problem, he took a guess at spy software is tracking me and I know have so many on my ...

Ad-Aware scans your computer (or only a diskette if you prefer) searching spywares: they are files (or registry keys) that collect information about you (for example websites you visit, name, surname or something else). There are also others that show ads in the program that installed them. Many freeware programs install spywares because they ...

AD-aware is a must have for any pc user, basically this program it's like a virus scanner but instead of virus, it scan your hard disk, memory, windows registry trying to find any possible spyware (spyware is a kind of file who simply access internet and report to advertising company some of your system information), (how is your computer ...

Ad aware is a nifty little program that can be downloaded onto your computer, and when run will check your entire hard disk for ?Spare? references. ***WHAT IS SPY WARE? *** Spyware are files which secretly uses your internet connection to download banner-ads or send various user data to an companies server - with or without ...

Ad-aware is the premier spycatcher from lavasoft. An incredible piece of software that is a must have for everyone. It comes in two flavours. A free version and a pay for version. I've been a huge fan ever since my firewall informed me that an unknown piece of software wanted to access the internet. After checking around a while i found out ...

Ad-Aware is a very useful program that aids in the detection and the removal of 'Spyware' from your computer. Spyware is often installed on your PC covertly when you install certain pieces of software. If you have one of these pieces of software, the chances are you have some spyware included on your computer: GoZilla, ...

Many companies install secret software to spy on your computer activity. This software can be picked up in freeware applications or from banner ads on websites. The software then installs itself on your PC secretly and sets its self to run on start-up. Whenever you are using your PC it is watching, particularly while you are on the net. It can ...

Everyone who surfs the web should be well aware of viruses and the damage they can cause your system. Many however will be less familiar with the idea of spyware, which in my opinion at least are equally nasty. When you visit certain sites you will find yourself being monitored by the site as to what you are doing. No problme there as such, adding ...

Do you know what is on your computer? Do you know how it got there? Do you know why it is there? If you can answer “Yes” to each question then you have nothing to worry about but then comes the day that you decide to ‘go on the Internet’ and your three Yes’s will quickly turn to three No’s. All ...

I had used Opt Out (by GRC), a freeware application for quite a while to detect the assorted spyware nasties, which had deposited their payloads on my hard drive, as cookies, files and registry entries, but was faced with a dilemma as what to do when support for Opt Out ended. Very magnanimously the author of Opt Out was quick to promote the ...