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 Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition
One of the first applications built to find and
remove adware and spyware, Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition's
excellent reputation is well justified. The sky-blue, skinnable
interface features five buttons. The first two, Status and Scan,
lead to the core function of the application. These buttons
initiate a scan of your files for adware components. After
scanning is complete, the program presents a summary of results,
followed by a list from which you select exactly which components
to remove. Right-clicking an individual entry gives some
information about the piece of suspected adware, though we would
like more details.
Ad-Aware SE can alert you to more malignant forms of malware by
separating items into critical and negligible categories. The
third button, Ad-Watch, is nonfunctional in the Standard version.
The fourth button, Plug-ins, shows you which Ad-Aware plug-ins are
installed. The fifth leads to the help files.Ad-Aware SE does an
excellent job of quickly finding and removing most adware and
spyware components, although you will have to restart and rescan
for a seriously infected machine. We were pleased to see an
auto-update feature included with the program, keeping Ad-Aware
up-to-date with the latest adware components. Ad-Aware SE should
be part of your arsenal for keeping your machine free of adware
and spyware components.
With the ability to scan your RAM, Registry, hard
drives, and external storage devices for known data-mining,
advertising, and tracking components, Ad-Aware SE easily can clean
your system, allowing you to maintain a higher degree of privacy
while you surf the Web.
Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition boasts a number of improvements.
Extended memory scanning now scans all modules loaded by a
process. Scanning uses the all- new CSI (Code Sequence
Identification) technology to identify new and unknown variants of
known targets. Extended Registry scanning now scans Registry
branches of multiple-user accounts and performs additional smart
checks to detect dynamically created references. Scanning speed is
noticeably faster, and this version offers an Extended Scanning
mode for known and unknown/possible browser hijackers.
New in version: Disk-scan is approximately 30 percent faster. CSI
scan is now more efficient. Added "Scan for low-risk threats"
option, to scan for targets with low TAC index. Ad-Watch CSI
engine performance highly improved; using less CPU and Memory as
well as having a smaller footprint. GUI adapted to use the new TAC.
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