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deckmaster

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Microsoft Windows users who rely on Ad-Aware SE Personal (the free version) to protect their machines from spyware and adware should be aware that Lavasoft, the company that makes the popular program, stopped shipping updates for the software after Dec. 31.

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Hope this helps anyone using ad-aware, I was wondering why my old version was not able to get updates.

IMO, anyone who might want to download the 2007 version of Ad-aware; it's really not worth it. Use spybot search and destroy and you should be fine.

I feel sad now...
 
GAH. i was afraid of this, after seeing the 'your definitions are now 17 days old, do you want to update?' window on startup this afternoon, and then being told that there *aren't* any updates available :(

*sigh* i use both spybot AND ad-aware, as one seems to pick up things that the other misses...

'mom

 
I use Spy-bot and Ad-Aware...the 2007 one is horrendous...downloaded it for my mom and it sucks. I was wondering....I scan once a week but I still have 100+ crit. viruses. I don't know why either. and also...I updated by Ad-Aware SE Personal yesterday......it showed that it updated and such!!!
 
SD PokéMom said:
GAH. i was afraid of this, after seeing the 'your definitions are now 17 days old, do you want to update?' window on startup this afternoon, and then being told that there *aren't* any updates available :(

*sigh* i use both spybot AND ad-aware, as one seems to pick up things that the other misses...

'mom
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Yup, same thing here. I thought it had somthing to do with my firewall, but then I did some research and found that article. What a shame.
 
Windows Defender is something that my PC technician recommended over both Ad-Aware and Spybot, and it seems to have done a pretty decent job so far. It runs in the background, performs its updates around midnight automatically, and performs a full scan every night at 3:00 am for me. Of course, I augmented it with Spyware Blaster, which I would put on any and all computers that can access the internet.

Haven't tried Spyware Doctor yet. How professional is the website for them?
 
Vegeta ss4 said:
I use Spy-bot and Ad-Aware...the 2007 one is horrendous...downloaded it for my mom and it sucks. I was wondering....I scan once a week but I still have 100+ crit. viruses. I don't know why either. and also...I updated by Ad-Aware SE Personal yesterday......it showed that it updated and such!!!
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Really?Was it an auto update or did you have to download from a thrid party site? Some people were saying, they can download updates from third part sites. please let me know!
 
bullados said:
Windows Defender is something that my PC technician recommended over both Ad-Aware and Spybot, and it seems to have done a pretty decent job so far. It runs in the background, performs its updates around midnight automatically, and performs a full scan every night at 3:00 am for me. Of course, I augmented it with Spyware Blaster, which I would put on any and all computers that can access the internet.

Haven't tried Spyware Doctor yet. How professional is the website for them?
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its pretty good, it runs and protects while browsing even, another handy tool to use is McAfee SiteAdvisor, its also free and it runs checks on websites checking for bad files and links to bad sites also, this is a function mostly used when you use search engines.
 
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