Ad-Aware 2007 7.0.2.7

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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. The latest release adds language support for Dutch, Flemish, and Portuguese.

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Editor's review of Ad-Aware 2007

One of the first applications built to find and remove adware and spyware, Ad-Aware's excellent reputation is well-justified. While the 2007 edition is still free, it does have some new features that may make you reconsider the height of the pedestal it sits on.

First off, the app's updater is now permanently on, running in your system's background. The irony of Ad-Aware running potential spyware is not lost on us. The interface has also been completely overhauled, and it's a bit more confusing. There are six tabs in the nav bar. Status and Scan initiate adware scans, and finish with a line-item list so you can select which components to remove and create a system restore point. The context menu offers some information about suspected adware, though it's light on details.

Other navbar buttons include Ad-Watch, offering real-time defenses but only in the paid version. Plug-ins are disabled in the free version, but the Tools and Plug-ins tab hosts TrackSweep, the new browsing tracks cleaner. Smoothly integrated into the app, it wipes the cache, cookies, and history, and other breadcrumbs left by major browsers. We couldn't help but notice, though, that the Web Update tab, which controls definition file and software updates, ran far more sluggishly than in previous editions, and sometimes even crashed the program.

The Settings tab 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. The freeware restrictions are mildly irritating, but they're nothing compared to some of the serious stability and background processes in the 2007 version. However, it is a fully functional adware remover, and it continues to do that well. With some hesitation, we recommend Ad-Aware 2007 as part of your arsenal.

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  Ad-Aware 2007

  Wow new language updates whooooooopeeee!.

  by: andeyejah on 29-Apr-2008 04:07:33 PM

  Pros: Nothing!. Detects nothing more than tracking cookies.Trust me it's a waste of space on your pc.Get avg 8.o or avast 8.o.They do the jobs that lazy old adaware hates.

  Cons: See above.

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  Ad-Aware 2007

  One of the best free anti-spyware programes.

  by: edred.uk on 10-May-2008 06:54:34 AM

  Pros: It has the option of a fast or slow scan. It always finds something to remove,even if its a trivial tracking cookie.

  Cons: I dont notice any advantage compared with previous versions.

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  Ad-Aware 2007

  doesn't work

  by: sw_tester on 01-May-2008 01:26:55 AM

  Pros: interface, skins.

  Cons: the ad watch icon on desktop,what does it do? always asks to upgrade.

  full scan always throws error.

  starting is slow.

  update keeps failing.

  the ad watch icon is not removed on uninstall.slows down my computer whenever i run this.not as good as 'ad-aware se' used to be. i installed this, musn't have.

  can live without it.

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  Ad-Aware 2007

  Just read the junk reviews by the newbies.

  by: tomwa53 on 03-May-2008 07:25:35 PM

  Pros: Nothing!

  Cons: Just read the junk reviews by the newbies. Enough said other then thank God I can afford real security apps.

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  Ad-Aware 2007

  Does what it says on the tin

  by: Suekie on 10-May-2008 01:22:10 PM

  Pros: Works fine for me, used in conjunction with other CNet top rated freeware, a Firewall, AV and Anti-spy. Not been invaded since I started using them about four years ago.

  Cons: I marginally preferred the earlier, simpler version, which was a bit quicker and more stable, but I guess this will be ironed out.

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