It is Saturday morning at 9AM. I just read the review of the Top 10 Spyware available. AdAware received the worse review of them all.
"For years, people have sworn by Lavasoft Ad-Aware, both the free (SE Personal) and the paid (SE Professional) versions, for stopping adware and spyware on their PCs. Last year the product placed first among our top 10 antispyware applications reviewed. In this year's tests, however, the paid Ad-Aware SE Professional 1.06R1 fared poorly, neither blocking nor scanning and removing more than three out of the eight files we used. Worse, Ad-Aware failed to remove any of the adware and spyware we used in our testing."
Perhaps this might explain why I've been having some trouble. I have recommended AdAware for years and have even bought it for some people only to find that it has gone from 1st place to last.... behind Norton no less!
They mentioned in the article great hopes for the redesigned 2007 version of the program. My question, since the version we have now is not to the quality of LavaSoft that we have expected, will current users be offered the 2007 free?
Patrick