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June 20, 2008 3:41 PM PDT

First Look video: Ad-Aware 2008

by Seth Rosenblatt

Ad-Aware has been around for nearly a decade and has been downloaded by hundreds of millions of people who want to scrub their computers clean. Publisher Lavasoft says that this edition includes better rootkit detection, faster updates, and other improvements. Check out what we thought about the latest version in this First Look video.

Topics:

Security and spyware,

Windows Software

Tags:

First Look,

Ad-Aware,

freeware,

malware

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