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• Reviewed by: damianj

  01-28-2012

  Duration of ownership: 10 Years

  Strengths: Familiarness & ease of use

  Weaknesses: Slow & sometimes renders PC unuseable

  Overall Evaluation: I've been using & recommending this for ad protection for as long as I can remember, but since the last update my machines have been rendered useless on many occasions & that's often when I'm meant to be working, so is completely unaceptable. Now forced to find an alternative. Still it's Lavasofts loss as I'll no longer be installing the paid for version in any of my projects.

• Reviewed by: JeetuYadav

  01-23-2012

  Duration of ownership: 1 Years

  Strengths: Ad-Aware most antivirus

  Weaknesses: plz give me

  Overall Evaluation: 1year

• Reviewed by: Redwin2012

  01-03-2012

  Duration of ownership: 5 Months

  Strengths: beatefull

  Weaknesses: beatefull

  Overall Evaluation: beatefull

• Reviewed by: momozamzam

  11-10-2011

  Duration of ownership: 0 Months

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• Reviewed by: vladimirhtg

  08-09-2011

  Duration of ownership: 9 Years

  Strengths: consistency, thoroughness.

  Weaknesses: gui. gosh.

  Overall Evaluation: this page makes me laugh. im 19, been a part time pc tech for 2 years, im studying engineering at a very respectable institution. enough credentials. i decided to look up others feelings in reference to the adaware gui cuz its given me a few bugs but i didnt expect to find a page that was almost completely devoted to the perpetual flogging of adaware. i like adaware. ive used adaware for 9 years. ive also used just about every other antivirus software on the market. i know all the flavors and toppings and i know which ones taste bad. so when i got here and found so many 1 star reviews, i was surprised. i laughed. for example, the review beneath this one. to the writer (chasmick)--im about to fix all of your problems. GET RID OF VISTA. holy schnitzel, vista is like the armpit of microsofts anatomy. i cant believe youve tolerated it this long. to all of you who dont enjoy the long wait time for adaware to scan: ummm...do you think that you can scan your systems ENTIRE registry faster than adaware can? an interesting thought. i do a lot of software work, in fact i do muchmuch more software work than anything else. i work with a lot of softwares and tools that create a hundred false postives. adaware hasnt failed to find them, while other softwares have consistently failed to. adawares virus definitions and engines havent disappointed to me yet. notice the 5 star rating. now ive actually upgraded to adware pro somewhat recently and enjoyed it. i definitely didnt mind throwing some funds in the direction of the company whose provided me with some quality software for many years--without charge. to all of you cheap wankers: gosh. spend some money. quit expecting so much for free. you might have to throw up a little bit of your american culture to do it, but it could potentially be beneficial in the future. oh. did i mention that im bilingual? the english on these forums is hilarious. i think americans forget about how they sound when they get mad. lol. well, i like adaware. i like it enough to register with this silly website and write a good review. im sure theres a better antivirus out there. there has to be. i just havent found it yet and im not even sure that ill change from adaware if i find it. enjoy yourselves. cheers. ps: if you seriously blame adaware for screwing up your 32 bit registry (and if your pc tech actually accepts payment for looking at it) then you might consider doing something drastic and unecessary. like shooting yourself in the face. or writing a retarded review on this afflicted website.

• Reviewed by: ChasMick

  06-26-2011

  Duration of ownership: 10 Years

  Strengths: SE Ad-aware and versions before that worked well. The latest version is poor in comparison and it is with regret that, after installing it 6 times, or so, and still having problems with it, I finally gave up the ghost and called it a day. Binning it was like throwing away a good friend, but I felt I had no choice.

  Weaknesses: With the latest updated version, it was one problem after another. Sometimes it wouldn't initialise on start-up or the icon in the system tray was greyed out and I had to reboot my computer. Other times a message told me, time after time, to reboot my computer to initialise Ad-aware. I thought I was going nuts until I came across this web site (PC World) and read all the negative reviews about it. By the way, my computer, running Visa 32, has dual core processors and I still had problems. The last time I installed it, Ad-Aware worked intermittently and, as I've already said, I chucked it out.

  Overall Evaluation: Up to, and including, the SE and Anniversary versions, it was fine. I noticed the Anniversary version was slower when performing a full scan, otherwise I found that it was fine to run, also; although I noted, like many of you, all versions of Ad-Aware seemed to find only cookies, mainly, and not usually any thing more serious. I think I'll stick with AVG, Spybot, Malwarebytes' AntiMaleware, Glary Register Cleaner, Glary Utilities and CC Cleaner, among many others I've used. Also I'd recommend SUPERAntiSpyware Free Edition for good all round performance; it gives plenty of updates and catches lots of cookies and harmful software, etc: a proper 'little terrier', you might say. All of these aforementioned utilities/software, etc, are available as completly free and legal downloads. I also have the free editions of Commodo Firewall and Verification Engine, for good measure, just to complete my computer security. Look them up on your browser and give them a try. PS, Although I've had computers for about 20 years, I don't consider myself to be an expert or an authority on computers, just an experienced user (with the help of a computer progammer friend who helped me out from time to time, in the past) who's learning more and more all the time, thanks to web sites like this one and people like you, helping one another by voicing your opinions and concerns. Hope I've made a useful contribution to these reviews. Kind regards, ChasMick.

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