Review
This is a quick review
Ad-Aware Free Anti-Malware features real-time protection, a rootkit removal system, automatic updates, and much more - to ensure that you have the power to protect yourself online.
The following full-length review applies to version 8.0
Ad-Aware is a complete antivirus and security program available free of cost for your PC. Ad-Aware doesn't offer anything new as compared to other famous security or antiviruses, however it pays more attention to virus and malware threats and provides you with a more powerful antivirus tool.
Ad-Aware offers an offline system scanner that can search for viruses and malware on your hard drives and heal the infected files. Ad-watch feature makes your web browsing more safer using real time scanning that can stop unauthorized access to your system and data, using an IP-blocking system. Ad-Aware saves your identity by detecting tracking cookies, trojan horses, ad-ware and all those threats that can leak your identity out to the web. The rest of the features, like Quarantine, Ignore List, Scheduler and Root Kit scanner are inherited from traditional anti-virus software and are very well known. You can have a process-watching tool, an autostart manager and a host file editor if you upgrade to a paid version that can enhance your PC's security by giving you parental control and a process manager along with the anti-virus tool. An extra tool called "TrackSweep" protects your privacy by erasing URL's, cookies, cache and history from your web browser like Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera.
Ad-aware 8.0, as compared to its earlier versions, features integrated Live feature for real time scanning, an external drive scanner, custom profiles support, integration into the right-click menu of Windows called Pin Point scanning and improved process monitoring. |
