SpySweeper.
From a recent LangaList re: AdAware...
) "Ad-Aware Let Us Down Again"
Fred, You have taught me more then anyone else
over the years and I sincerely thank you. I was
disappointed last year when Lavasoft stopped
supporting Updates to Ad-Aware and left the
customers all hanging. Without current updates it
was worthless and I deleted it. I now have Ad-
Aware Plus, version 6.0, build 158, and wondered
why for well over a month there were no "new"
updates available? In that time my Spybot and Pest
Patrol had many updates. I went to the Lavasoft
web site tonight and found that even though, I
have version 6.0, they have stopped Update access
to any release less than build 181.... If I cannot
even manually download and install the Updates to
my older build of the current version, then this
utility will go into my Dumpster and I will never
use Lavasoft again. Lavasoft seriously needs to
rethink what they are doing if they want people to
use their product.--- Dean Ross
I agree, Dean. It's now been almost a year since Lavasoft
started having major trouble, first with their site going
dark for days and weeks; then, when the site came back,
there was a period of many month with no updates, despite
the proliferation of new hostile adware/spyware/malware;
then they had a new round of site problems; and now there
have been a number of glitches with the new version 6, too.
PestPatrol and Spybot also have had their share of growing
pains--- no one is immune, especially in this, which may be
the fastest-growing area in software: New hostile
adware/spyware/malware crops up almost every day, requiring
an extremely aggressive coding effort on the part of the
vendors selling protective software.
But Lavasoft's ongoing and pernicious problems--- almost a
year!--- make me unwilling to rely on Ad-Aware as much more
than a backup or secondary tool. I have not purchased the
Pro version of Ad-Aware, and don't plan to until and unless
the dust settles and they have a *long* run without serious
outages, hassles or glitches.
Meanwhile, I rely on Spybot (which I paid for via voluntary
donation) and PestPatrol (which I simply bought). No tool is
perfect, and all the tools in this category have some rough
spots. But these two tools seem to nicely backstop each
other. Combined with a good firewall and an up-to-date
antivirus tool, they've kept my PC safe and pest-free,
despite the worst the internet has had to offer. <g>
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