Ad aware is pretty good, though when it is scanning through your computer it actually scans slowly. But it is very good. Sometimes it can't detect a few viruses that's why I always have a back-up AV, any would as long as it's not a bad one. Ad-aware is excellent for people who don't know much about computers or anti-viruses.

Nice piece of software for personal use. Combine this with a good firewall (e.g Comodo) and a nice anti-virus (like Avira) and you have quite good protection. Paranoids may consider a preventive appln like SpywareBuster to go along with this "SecureCombo"

02/20/08
Simply said, IT does not work with the VUSTA OS, and my earlier version will not longer receive database updates. It stops with an error message" Error 5%."
I look forward to the next release. The original Ad-Aware SE served me exceptionally well for at least 3.6 years.
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I think this product has been downloaded so many times because 9 out of 10 times what you get is a "corrupt" copy!!!

Poor product. Installed Ad-Aware 7.0.2.5 on two separate Vista machines and both crash upon startup. Have reverted back to Ad-Aware SE which works just fine.

Adaware is a very useful tool, unfortunatly this version doesn`t work on my W98 machine according to the info on the website.
My pc works fine but a lot of new versions of known software (wmp11, firefox3 and this one) don`t run on it....wich almost forces me to get a new one.

I paid for the Pro upgrade and the serial number provided did not work. Customer support was very, very slow to respond and provided no actual help with the problem. I changed to another program that works and registers. If you try to register this software you may be throwing away your money...

Ad-aware was a very good program to prevent infection of spywares and ad-wares but it only WAS. Now, if you want real-time protection, you HAVE TO purchase the pro or plus version. Why? Why did they make it payware? The free version does not worth anything since it's NOT able to protect your system in real time. Now I'm about to change to an other program that is FREE and supports real-time protection.