http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4644 Giveaway of the Day Forums » Topic: Lavasoft Ad-Aware - new and improved. en-US Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:16:44 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4644/page/2#post-87183 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:37:03 +0000 leofelix 87183@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi all<br /> 6 months Lavasoft ad.aware pro v 6 for free</p> <p><a href="http://www.lavasoft.com/mylavasoft/single/free_6_months" rel="nofollow">http://www.lavasoft.com/mylavasoft/single/free_6_months</a></p> <p>Lavasoft ad-aware includes VIPRE antivirus engine, do not install alongside any other resident antivirus as a result</p> <p>Happy New year:-) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4644/page/2#post-87180 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 06:25:20 +0000 notblocklox 87180@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I used Super AntiSpyware and Malwarebytes AntiMalware until Kaspersky kicked them out.<br /> Here <a href="http://www.techsupportalert.com/pc/security-tools.html">The Best Free Security Software for PC</a> you can find a lot of info about security tools.<br /> Especially here: <a href="http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-adware-spyware-scumware-remover.htm">Best Free Adware-Spyware-Scumware Remover</a>.</p> <p>graylox </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4644/page/2#post-87173 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 02:54:18 +0000 Delilah 87173@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>What was I thinking? If version 8.2 free was a major resource hog, of course 9.0 Pro will be, and then some! I&#39;ve exited the program through the tray icon, and what a difference. Like I&#39;ve got my system back. My curiosity is satisfied, and I will no doubt be uninstalling Ad-Aware soon. BTW, I have plenty of disk space, 3.0GB of memory, a 3.0GHz processor, XP Pro SP3, so I don&#39;t think resources are an issue here.</p> <p>Copmom, in this case I agree. Like I said, I don&#39;t think you&#39;re missing much. I haven&#39;t been using Ad-Aware much recently. And Comodo Internet Security Suite (the free version) is doing a pretty good job for me. I do think I&#39;ll install a couple of the privacy options mentioned by Graylox recently, like Abine and the Firefox addon Better Privacy. One at a time, and see how it goes.</p> <p>I still use Spybot S&amp;D, and may try Malwarebytes, as Tailteann mentioned. Thanks, all. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4644/page/2#post-87095 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:54:17 +0000 copmom 87095@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I think with all that&#39;s going on with Ad-Aware I&#39;m going to skip this upgrade. Spent too much time already just trying to get that Vicual C++ runtime 9.0 serv. pack 1 .. it won&#39;t install and without it Ad-aware won&#39;t install on set up. I guess I should follow the old rule, if it ain&#39;t broke, don&#39;t &#39;fix&#39; it! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4644#post-87094 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:12:45 +0000 Tailteann 87094@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I really like the free version of Malwarebytes as my anti-spyware program. Efficient, effective, new definitions updates constantly. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4644#post-87092 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:54:05 +0000 Terri218 87092@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I finally got it off my computer but it took over an hour. It blocked everything I tried. It seemed to protect itself more than anything else. Oh well. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4644#post-87090 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:41:51 +0000 copmom 87090@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Maybe if you go to options it lets you turn off unless you want it to run? That&#39;s what I do with a lot of my programs that normally auto start. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4644#post-87088 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:53:58 +0000 Terri218 87088@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>This thing has slowed my computer down so much I can&#39;t stand it. I don&#39;t know if that&#39;s a learning curve or not. Is there a way to turn it off without uninstalling it? If so I&#39;d like to leave it on my computer to run scans occasionally. I think it&#39;s a good idea to run scans with different programs because they find things others miss. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4644#post-87087 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:47:06 +0000 copmom 87087@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Well for free things.. I&#39;ve been using Comodo Internet Security both for a firewall and a virus program. So far it&#39;s been working pretty good for me. Several people on this forum recommended it to me when my McAfee ran out and I didn&#39;t want to pay to renew that one anymore. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4644#post-87084 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:01:34 +0000 Terri218 87084@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I&#39;m confused (as usual), does the Pro version contain an anti-virus program. Should I leave Bit Defender on or turn it off? </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4644#post-87078 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:19:48 +0000 dsekirka 87078@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I had Problems running Adawre pro on my Windows 7 64-bit laptop. It gave me the BSOD 3 times, I then uninstalled it and the problem went away. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4644#post-87071 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 06:43:19 +0000 Michelle 87071@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I don&#39;t even run adaware free anymore, because I find it slows down my computer considerably. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4644#post-87070 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 06:37:33 +0000 Delilah 87070@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>My download and install went fine, but when I tried to stop a scan (clicked on the &quot;Stop Scan&quot; button in the program, which always worked before), the scan would not stop! Did multiple clicks on that button, also tried stopping it through the tray icon, and finally resorted to Task Manager. Like someone commented above (last year, I think), <strong>I do not like programs that will not take NO! for an answer</strong>, either. </p> <p>I was running the Free Version 8.1 before, and didn&#39;t update to version 8.2 because so many people experienced it as a resource hog, but was curious about the Pro version. Remains to be seen whether I can get it to behave itself/not swamp my system.</p> <p>So, Copmom, you may not be missing much. As was also observed last year, AdAware seems to be trying to be all things to all people. I already have an antivirus program, and I hope the AdAware one stays turned off. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4644#post-87069 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 05:15:21 +0000 Michelle 87069@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I thought of switching from Norton to Adaware today, but I am having so many problems with my computer I don&#39;t need another problem. You know what I mean? Norton isn&#39;t bad and as a Comcast customer I get to use it for free so that is what I have installed. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4644#post-87064 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 04:49:03 +0000 copmom 87064@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>This one is driving me crazy.. I&#39;ve already got a prior version but did this download. Then went to setup and keep getting message: Microsoft visual C++ runtime 9.0 serv. pack 1 could not be installed. Please use windows update to manually install the update on your system. Ad aware setup cannot continue.</p> <p>Then I followed the above and it will not install! Arggggggh! Then I went to my current ad aware, clicked on update, brought me to the same setup as above, and got the same error message. Even went to Lavasoft FAQ&#39;s and see that there are others with the same problem! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4644#post-87061 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:10:36 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 87061@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thanks Copmom </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4644#post-87045 Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:53:49 +0000 copmom 87045@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Today they are offering a 1 year free license if you are a Cnet member which you just sign up to be when going to their site. I am downloading it, but so far it&#39;s taken 2 hours at 10.9kb sec to download! Eeeks. Sure hope this is worth it after all that time.. they&#39;re servers must be mighty busy!<br /> By the way, this is their Pro version. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4644#post-50001 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:19:35 +0000 Barry 50001@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Good evening,<br /> Thanks pavid and notblocklox, I was hoping my brand new Microsoft "habu" Christmas mouse was not acting up.<br /> Now Ad-Aware AE is seeking revenge! since I won't let it boot up at start up and I have declined the weekly updates, now when I run the program, without running a scan and ad-watch is shut off, the program is basically sitting there idling, it is using between 49% and 52% CPU usage, till I shut it down again, "very strange". I think this program needs a Anger Management Training Program built into it. LOL<br /> Have a good one,<br /> Barry </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4644#post-49990 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:00:30 +0000 pavid 49990@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi Barry, </p> <p>I did notice the button problem you mention. No matter what I did I couldn't get it to change what I had initially asked for on the list so called "problems" (which weren't at all). I wasn't happy when it decided to run the 1 click fix up without asking me. The final straw came when I tried to close the program and couldn't. In the end I killed it with task manager, made sure no other<br /> Ad-Aware modules were running and then deleted the poor excuse for a helpful program using Revo Uninstaller to make sure all or at least most of it was gone. </p> <p>I'm still shaking my head at the fact that Lavasoft of all companies could release a program like this. If anyone lets it do what it wants to, they are going to have a host of problems later. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4644#post-49929 Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:57:41 +0000 notblocklox 49929@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Ad-Aware made all those problems you describe of course on my system too. As I am not tech-savvy enough to recognise every false alarm, I'm going to uninstall this program now, after it made a good job a lot of years. Thank you Lavasoft; when this edition is improved and doesn't make such a mess any more, I'll come back. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4644#post-49926 Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:53:24 +0000 Barry 49926@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi,<br /> Pavid, I was wondering if if you noticed a problem I had with the choice selection buttons for what to do with the files found after a scan? I decided to quarantine one of those files, and had to click on it several times before it would respond, then after further investigation, I decided to put the file back to ignore once and I could not get that button to respond at all. I then played with a couple of other files, same thing, the buttons were very unresponsive. I finally just shut the program down.<br /> Bye the way, the program still wants to run that weekly up-date file<br /> (Ad-AwareAdmin.exe), every time I start Ad-Aware up, even though I changed all the prevalent settings within the program.<br /> Have a good one,<br /> Barry </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4644#post-49908 Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:11:02 +0000 pavid 49908@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>As Barry said, I'm not impressed at all. I did a full scan of my system and it found 80 odd "<em>problems</em>". Many were uninstallers and most others were perfectly safe parts of programs that I have installed and used. The rest were required registry entries. Not one of them was malware related.</p> <p>I could understand those results (maybe), if I did not regularly scan my system with other programs. However, with a firewall and antivirus program installed and regular full scans with them and other adware programs, I feel perfectly safe. If I had let Ad-Aware do what it wanted to do, I would now have a big mess on my hands.</p> <p>Ad-aware used to be a good program, but I won't keep it when Ad-Aware is throwing so many false positives. I'm really disappointed with Lavasoft. Perhaps they should try just concentrating on one thing instead of trying to be all things to all people. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4644#post-49800 Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:12:06 +0000 Barry 49800@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hello,<br /> So far I am not impressed with the new Ad-Aware program, after the first full scan the program found at least 9 false positives, mostly uninstaller files and a couple of .dll files that need to be left alone. What irks me the most is, even tough I refused permission through Scotty (WinPatrol)to be a start up program, it did anyway, and on my computer since it is a service, it was not in the start up list, so to stop it from booting up at start up, I had to go into Services and change "Lavasoft Ad-Aware Service" from automatic to manual. One other thing, I did not want the automatic weekly updates, I prefer to update these types of software manually, but even though I have refused permission several times to allow this, the program keeps on trying to run that file.<br /> I have used Ad-Aware for years, one of the first anti malware programs I installed on my computer, it found hundreds if not thousands of nasties over those years, but I feel you have to have some measure of trust for these types of programs and this one has not measured up so far. Plus, I really dislike programs that do not accept NO! for a answer.<br /> Anyway, have a good look at what the program finds before you remove anything.<br /> Catch you later,<br /> Barry </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4644#post-49764 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:40:49 +0000 Robert 49764@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Lee..<br /> Maybe that 'false' positive, pointing to uninstaller files, is due to the fact some programs ,when uninstalled, connect to the company's web page without one's consent. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4644#post-49730 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:42:28 +0000 copmom 49730@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thanks Michelle.. I just found that out. LOL It did UNinstall previous version. Then it rebooted. So far, I do notice that my machine is a tad slower responding to things .. maybe I'll do another reboot! I did turn it off since I don't want it automatically running when windows starts.. I prefer running these when I want them to run and not be in the task bar all the time. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4644#post-49727 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:29:08 +0000 Michelle 49727@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>No copmom you do not if you install the new one. I read somewhere after I uninstalled the previous version that it will uninstall the old version on it's own when you install the new version. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4644#post-49725 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:12:55 +0000 copmom 49725@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Do I have to uninstall my previous version of Ad Aware free?? </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4644#post-49716 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:02:34 +0000 Lee 49716@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Yes Michelle I put it on ignore.</p> <p>Allmedia Grabber v3.0 has an uninstall file it wants to delete, so if you<br /> have that program installed then make sure you double check with ad aware settings. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4644#post-49714 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:42:27 +0000 Michelle 49714@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Don't remove any uninstall files Lee. </p> <p><a href="http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-Anniversary-Edition/3000-8022_4-10045910.html?tag=TOCmoreStories.0&#38;cdlPid=10998841" rel="nofollow">http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-Anniversary-Edition/3000-8022_4-10045910.html?tag=TOCmoreStories.0&#38;cdlPid=10998841</a></p> <p>Take a look at the editor's review. It seems like they have a false positive in this version where it is incorrectly identifying uninstall files on some computers. I have not had this problem. I had a problem where it identified a Windows file as a suspicious file. The application has the ability to upload the file to Lavasoft and it did that. For now though I put it on ignore. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4644#post-49708 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:15:54 +0000 Lee 49708@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Well I also installed the free version 3 days ago.</p> <p>Seems o.k., not as good as when I first used it 10 odd years ago.</p> <p>Lavasoft made good games also, wonder if any of you played their games.</p> <p>Only thing I find odd about it is, it tells me to remove some uninstall files. </p>