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- Price: Free; paid upgrade available
- Operating system: Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: June 14, 2007
- Total Downloads: 320,544,093
- Downloads last week: 825,481
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 11236 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
One of the first applications built to find and remove adware and spyware, Ad-Aware 2007's excellent reputation is well-justified.
The interface features two skins and six tabs in the nav bar. The first two, Status and Scan, initiate file scans for adware. After scanning is complete, the program presents a results summary, followed by a line-item list from which you can select which components to remove. There is also an option to create a system restore point. Right-clicking an individual entry gives some information about suspected adware, though details beyond whether the malware is critical or negligible wouldn't hurt.
The third button, Ad-Watch, offers real-time defenses but only in the paid version. Web Update, the next button, controls definition file updates. The fifth button, Tools and Plug-ins, shows you which plug-ins are installed and controls TrackSweep, the new browsing tracks cleaner. TrackSweep is the only free function here. Smoothly integrated into the app, it wipes the cache, cookies, and history, and other breadcrumbs left by major browsers.
Settings is last, and provides access to auto-scans, browsers, scanning, the interface, and log files. The app does an excellent job of removing most malware components, although rescanning is necessary for a seriously infected machine. Despite the freeware restrictions, this is a fully functional adware remover, and Ad-Aware 2007 should be part of your arsenal.
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Publisher's description
From Lavasoft :With the ability to scan your RAM, Registry, hard drives, and external storage devices for known data-mining, advertising, and tracking components, Ad-Aware 2007 easily can clean your system, allowing you to maintain a higher degree of privacy while you surf the Web.
Ad-Aware 2007 includes a redesigned engine, improved code sequence identification, incremental definition updates, one-click Web-history cleanup, multiple browser support, and other new features. Version 7.0.1.4 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
What's new in this version:
Version 7.0.1.4 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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User reviews of Ad-Aware 2007 7.0.1.4
- Average user rating: 3.8 stars out of 11236 votes
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18 out of 20 people found this review helpful
Version: Ad-Aware 2007 7.0.1.4
"This version isn't that good."
Pros: It has the features featured in its SE Edition. Auto Scan, automatic defintion update and improved, sleeker look interface this version boast.
Cons: Its lower version has a good scanning engine. This version is too slow. I smart scan my PC and it ends with unremarkable result...too slow. I recommend to use its SE version. Its realtime shield is not activated, also its process viewer in the tools palette is not activated. You must upgrade to pro version to enable it.
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13 out of 24 people found this review helpful
Version: Ad-Aware 2007 7.0.1.4
Cons: Not as good as the previous version. I hate this! Do yourself a favor and skip this bloatware. Reccomend it to someone that you hate. Use SpyBot or Trendware's Housecall.
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2 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Ad-Aware 2007 7.0.1.4
"DO NOT BUY IT! DON'T BUY IT! DON'T BUY IT!"
Pros: I bought Plus and the key turned out to be totally Inavalid. No support as they say addressing my problem would take time on account of a very large number of support requests. The Plus Version works as a free version and support won't come as these Lavasoft guys won't be able to handle massive volume of support requests.
Cons: ONLY CONS. JUST DO NOT BUY IT. CNET only sees a product once as it has to review thousand others and as such their reviews can't be relied upon as they don't and can't use any product after a first quick check.
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Ad-Aware 2007 7.0.1.4
Pros: I have never seen a program behave in such a way, its aggression against Trojans and Spyware is incredible, if it can not remove something by normal means it will do it on Restart, Better if used in safe mode to remove all possible threats in a single scan. Great support and constant updating
Cons: Spybot Search and Destroy Does the same with the new updates and its kind of faster.
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Ad-Aware 2007 7.0.1.4
"Needs to improve, time needed to give it a fair review..."
Pros: Seems to work with Firefox now. Still does a good job detecting and cleaning...
Cons: ... if it does not crash. I think it has crashed on me every time it updates... sure, I can relaunch it and all is good, but it should be more stable. Just going to use the free version. I'm not going to pay for something that clearly is not ready for everyday use. Giving it three stars for the free version.... but would be better fit for a 2½ stars vote.
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