Adaware is still great
Feb 4, 2008 Uncategorized
Recently I upgraded my free Adaware anti-spyware software. I can say that I am still impressed with the quality of a free product!
You can download the free, personal edition of Ad-Aware by visiting the Lavasoft page. Download this program, let it install, and once it is installed, it will prompt you to update the definitions file. For most installations, you can use the ‘Full System Scan’ option, and it will clean it up. You will be amazed at how much junk it finds on your system. Once the scan is complete, just click ‘next’ and it will automatically quarantine or delete the offending files, cookies, and troublesome garbage on your system. I have been using this for sometime now, and haven’t had any problems with it wreaking havoc on a system as it primarily looks for specific threats related to browser history, etc.
You might receive a prompt that it can’t delete all of the offending files because some of them are in use. It will ask you if you want it to rescan and/or remove them upon startup. This is fine as the program will run again the next time you start your computer and catch most, if not all, of the files.
