Lavasoft releases Ad-Aware 6

Published on January 28, 2003 By Larry Kuperman In WinCustomize News

"Ad-aware Plus Edition is designed to provide continuous protection from known Datamining, aggressive advertising, Parasites, Scumware, Keyloggers, selected traditional Trojans, Dialers, Malware, Browser hijackers, and tracking components."

"Ad-aware Professional Edition is the newest and most powerful version we have offered to date. Not only does it encompass the formidable features of our Plus version, but it also provides you with the ability to adjust it to meet your exact needs. With Ad-aware Professional, you are in complete control."

Comments

kenosis

on Jan 28, 2003

anyone able to get this link to actually work?

moussie

on Jan 28, 2003

Looks like none of the links to ad-aware are working. Maybe it's because everybody wants to download, or is it that latest worm ??

Larry Kuperman

on Jan 28, 2003

I am able to access the site (but it is busy.) Try typing http://lavasoft3.element5.com/

Larry Kuperman

on Jan 28, 2003

Heh. Make that h**p://lavasoft3.element5.com/

Weaksid

on Jan 29, 2003

I hope they are busy. I still can't get in. I thought they would at least show the main screen.

balls

on Jan 29, 2003

I have gone thru to the site on three occassions. No problems here.

Weaksid

on Jan 29, 2003

Woohoo, finally in. Must of been busy. Thanks Larry!

moussie

on Jan 29, 2003

I finally got in as well( the site), only to find out that we have to wait a couple of days for the freeware. Looks they setting up a new homepage as well, so maybe some URL got mixed up

RenoRob

on Jan 29, 2003

No problems getting in, but the software isn't available until sometime in February...

Weamish

on Jan 29, 2003

The freeware version is not available until Feb, but you can buy the Plus and Pro versions now. This I have done, after spending an hour last week getting rid of Xupiter Toolbar after a mistyped URL infected me. AdAware should help prevent a similar event.

Chef Garry

on Jan 29, 2003

I couldn't get connected yesterday but it works fine this morning. A little more whizzy than the old version but still simple to use. FWIW, it didn't find anything that Spybot didn't already get. In a day or two, I'll run Ad-Aware, then Spybot. The latter always found stuff that Ad-Aware missed. It will be interesting to see if version 6 fixes that.

Chef Garry

on Jan 29, 2003

Just another thought to add - the help files are really well laid out. Just a not so subtle hint for the ODNT stuff.

moussie

on Jan 29, 2003

After reading the above (about spybot) I just had to check it out. After reading the sweetest licence agreement I've seen so far my eyes nearly popped out when I saw what tons of s**t still were on my drive after running ad-aware (5.8), thanx for the tip chef

Chef Garry

on Jan 30, 2003

I ran ad-aware 6, then spy-bot right after. Nothing left on this test but I'll try again over the next few days. If this thread is still active I'll report back.

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