Reviews of Ad-Aware Definition File

1. 
   DarkRats

   Reviewing 0108.0000 (Aug 4, 2008)

   Updates are still available for the earlier version of Ad-Aware, but I agree that version 2007 is poorer in quality.
   
   I've been looking for a replacement, and am currently testing Malwarebyte's product. It's free, unless you want protection always running in the background (which I don't).
   
   So far, it seems nice. Simple UI, and is able to clean out some items that others miss.
2. 
   RastaWorld

   Reviewing 0095.0000 (Jul 1, 2008)

   Agreed, I had lots of support, was a paid user. But since their latest releases starting with AdAware 2007, they have gone way down.
   
   The "business" is taking over, and has become only about the profit, not about a rock solid application anymore.
3. 
   Scipio

   Reviewing 0083.0000 (May 16, 2008)

   Yes, good review, Haxalot.
   
   I used to do some beta testing, but I've pretty much given up on it. I send in reports to a few programs with developers I really admire, like AdMuncher.
   
   I gave up on AdAware when it ceased letting me download updates for the earlier version a few months ago. Recent versions are so much dead weight.
   
   I'm still using Spybot and SpywareBlaster. I agree that it's best to have multiple programs, but Ad-Aware has lost it.
4. 
   uberfly

   Reviewing 0071.0000 (Apr 17, 2008)

   haxalot. Doh
5. 
   haxalot

   Reviewing 0047.0000 (Jan 24, 2008)

   Howdy,
   
   I am not attacking any person directly, but trying to draw attention to an ever increasing destruction of intelligence, please read carefully, then look around and see what you can do to help defeat the decay. Thankx...
   
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   I see a few who act as if they know something, but do not.
   
   First I must say the guy who says 07 is bloated must know something, it is over 13 megs if you have had it for any length of time at all. 106 SE is 5 megs or less, so I see that 07 is the bloated version.
   
   07 is a big drop for Lavasoft, a major step backwards.
   
   1. 07 being nearly 3 times the size of 106, while at the same time has less flexability.
   
   2. Too much of 07 is bacground, sort of like shoveing the kids out the garage and closeing the door, you don't know whats happening untill its been done, and then only a little of the surface, with almost no options to find out all the details.
   
   3. One thing good is a lack of overloaded buttons and options for things nobody needs in a spyware/adware scanning and removal application. How to scan, what to scan, how to handle what is found and maybe an editor to edit some of the findings to work in your favor.
   
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   Ad-Aware since it's inception, actually a spin off from Steve Gibson's OptOut had started off as an excellent application, traded hands and began to suffer, yet early on after the change they were dedicated to maintain a high level of security, and as time went on, there was a rise and fall of quality. Overall for several years Lavasoft has a done pretty good job of makeing it easier for those of us who do know, keep those who don't know, a little safer. And I do thank them for that.
   
   Last spring is when it all began to change, I first got 07, and ran it once, I knew it was crap. I hung on for a few weeks to see if it would improve, but not really, not the way I would have changed it, so I dumped it.
   
   Now the guy who says he has to "fall back" to using spybot S&D, well I never stopped using it.
   
   One spyware application is not enough, each one has its own set of things it does and doesn't do. So the use of 3 different ones will ensure you get that much more of the junk out.
   
   I was sad when MS purchased the best one around, then made it a beta, then no longer free, and or easy, so I dropped it too.
   
   That leaves me with just a few left, and the recent upgrade of SpyBot S&D is a big jump, and does a very good job taking over where Lavasoft and Microsoft have left us out in the cold.
   
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   Alpha and Beta work.
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   It used to be a job, now just a bunch of wannabee hackerz are trying to jump on a wagon they don't know how to ride, and have destroyed that type of work.
   
   We used to get paid, but not any more, the DUMMIES jumped in and pay the developers to be a tester, so rather than getting good programmers who can find the bugs, edit and clean the code, and help to actually make a product FREE OF DEFECT, we now have people who do not know how to track down a bug let alone find a cause out there trying to give feedback about some app or driver for hardware, and so a true fix never shows up, and those of you into OVERCLOCKING MB's CPU's GPU's and the like have all run into some of those lousy pieces of hardware and poorly written driver in the last 5 years and know exactly what I am saying...
   
   My hope are the folks at LAVASOFT see this, and understand I am sad to see the change, and I am not attacking them, but dismayed at their choices. I hope they do get back inline to what is truely needed for everyone today, not just those who don't know how clean their systems, but also for those of us do know, and only use these apps for a time saveing device. Again thanks LS for all you have done, but your not the top of the wave any more, and thats where I ride.
   
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   CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU STUPID HACKER WANNABEEZ!
   
   You go right ahead and blow all YOUR MONEY and all YOUR TIME for some one else who will NOT PAY YOU for what you did.
   
   As dumb as a lot of terminal patients I see and meet, who jump on drug test programs today, and have to pay big bucks to do it, when it was the other way around 20 years ago. Back then you got paid big bucks to risk your life, but todays DUMMIES pay their hard earned cash to SUFFER WORSE AND DIE. Furthermore they never check out the drugs or programs, only what the developers tell them, so 9 out of 10 clinical trials patients die 1 to 2 years into the programs, and I have lost a lot of friends to that scam of the FAST TRACK drug program, no lab tests, no, mice, just an idea and then straight into human testing.
   
   When will you people get smart, and dump the anti-depressants and anti-anxiety drugs and come back to reality?
   
   I remember when Reveal tried pulling a shortcut slip in development and back then the users were almost all hackers, we caught on in a hurry, an they went under. BUT not today, we got junk companies selling trash, not standing behind guarantees, treating customers like slaves less than human. Wake up world, push for true quality, and if you don't do code, don't do testing.
   
   Enjoy, and most of all, please learn from message.
   
   30 years hacking affords some knowledge to pass along.

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