Ad-Aware 9.6 Fileforum Pick

3.4 out of 5 stars 3.4 (938 votes)

(November 2, 2011)

Windows 2000/Vista/XP / Freeware / 5,750,225 downloads

Ad-Aware is designed to provide advanced protection from known Data-mining, aggressive advertising, Parasites, Scumware, selected traditional Trojans, Dialers, Malware, Browser hijackers, and tracking components.

Ad-Aware Free is available for personal home use only. Commercial use is prohibited.

Reviews of Ad-Aware

  1. 1 out of 5 stars
    forthetimebeing

    Reviewing 9.6 (Nov 5, 2011)

    Version 9.6 with ad watch live and browser watch and toolbar is a disaster on XP running IE8. Open in new tab command takes five minutes to open the page, then opens it in a new window instead. It slows all pages from opening, even in same window/tab to the point where you have to think the browser has crashed/frozen. And to add insult to injury, this latest trash version does not allow you to disable or remove the ad watch live feature. Once AdAware 9.6 is uninstalled, all browsing returns to normal. This app is as bad or worse than a virus infection.

  2. 1 out of 5 stars
    nilst2006

    Reviewing 9.5 (Sep 1, 2011)

    It WAS a good tool back when i used Windows 2000. Remember all the plugins you could download. Remove alt datastreams and so on. Today, a complete waste of time... Version 6 is the best, the rest is crap.....

  3. 1 out of 5 stars
    Input Overload

    Reviewing 9.0.5.0 (May 2, 2011)

    Maybe after running the installer it then goes to the site and dl's the true file?

  4. 4 out of 5 stars
    DKDude

    Reviewing 9.0.5.0 (May 2, 2011)

    @Input Overload

    What are you talking about, the size it only 9.5MB.

  5. 1 out of 5 stars
    SEABOY101

    Reviewing 9.0.2.0 (Mar 6, 2011)

    Each new version is yuckkkk...where's version 6 gpne ? simple interface and better performance and real good program ( i'm talking about version 6 )

Discuss Ad-Aware

  1. Nov 30, 2010 - 1:34 PM
    asaenz

    malwarebytes blocking ads?