Ad-Aware by Lavasoft

[hazelnut]

Many of you will remember this once 'must have ' app.

 

If this article's facts are right looks like it may be end game, at the very least I'd never recommend it to anyone.

 

http://www.majorgeek...ry.php?id=31632

[rridgely]

I cant remember the last time I used Ad-Aware.

[Winapp2.ini]

I never used it, but I've heard others rave about it

[Alan_B]

It was on the Laptop when my daughter passed it on to me.

 

It never found anything worse than tracking cookies.

 

Then they updated but I found this forced zombie services that I could kill,

and a few minutes later they would resurrect and steal CPU cycles again.

 

I reverted to the previous version but after a while they discontinued the data-base updates for what had never found anything bad,

so I decided my 30 GB HDD was to precious to waste on bloated junk and I zapped it.

Never regretted that decision.

[nodles]

I used it many years ago (when it was still good and free) and would never recommend it now. Well, I would recommend avoiding it.

SpyBot & MBAM are much better. I do recommend SUPERAntiSpyware sometimes, but I remember it leaving some "components" after uninstalling it, so haven't tested it on my own PC in a while.

[Corona]

I haven't used Adaware in about a decade.

[Willy2]

The last free version of AdAware I used was a nightmare. Took too much CPU time and slowed all other programs down in the say first 5 minutes after a start up.