Regarding The Service Options

[LS Tobias]

There has been a lot of commotion regarding the service part of Ad-Aware 2007 - this is an attempt to answer the most common questions you have posted in these forums.

Something that is worth pointing out from the onset is that of the two parts that make up Ad-Aware 2007 - aawservice.exe and Ad-Aware 2007.exe - it is the service that is the very heart of the application. It carries out the scans and removals of infections - Ad-Aware 2007.exe is only a Graphical User Interface that allows the user to control the functionality of the service.

The reasons for using a service-based approach for Ad-Aware 2007 are many. A service implementation allows for modularity and scalability in the implementation. Using a service also gives the engine the elevated rights on the system, which is an absolute necessity in order to cope with the malware of today. An added bonus is that the service operates with these elevated rights even when you are logged in as a normal user which gives you an enhanced protection against malware simply because that they are forced to execute in user mode.

As for the use of system resources, we can understand that the average freeware user thinks that the memory consumption is a bit high, considering that they get no real-time protection. We are working on ways of reducing the resource consumption of the service when it is not in use. We do not yet have a date for when such an update will be available, but we will announce it these forums.

Regards, Tobias