What's New in This Release:
· Speed – More comprehensive and up to 400% faster than any previous 6x release.
· · Smart scan mode – Improves speed even further and has been optimized to detect content at the root level enabling fast and efficient maintenance scanning.
· · Improved In-depth scan – More effective while reducing CPU resources.
· · Improved deep registry scan – Faster with additional registry coverage that can detect dynamically created registry keys.
· · Conditional scanning – Improving speed by allowing Ad-aware to decide when and where additional scanning is needed based on a previous detection during the scanning process.
· · HOSTS file scanning – Newly discovered exploit that uses HOSTS file editing to facilitate browser hijacking has been countered with this addition. Now Ad-aware has the ability to scan, backup, remove, and restore known references from your HOSTS file.
· · More efficient reference file usage – Ad-aware can now read and use more detailed information stored in the reference file.
· · Improved Browser Hijacker detection – Better detection for known and newly discovered Browser Hijackers.
· · Improved log file output – More comprehensive reporting for better record keeping.<... [
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