Lavasoft Ad-aware Pro 8.0.2 Anniversary Edition Review


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Lavasoft AD-AWARE Pro 8.0.2 Anniversary Edition Review

timestamp(1235089800000,'longDate') by Erik Larkin, PC World

Ad-Aware's new antivirus engine offers some extra protection, but you may be better off with just a solid antivirus program.

The new, $40 Anniversary edition of Ad-Aware Pro, Lavasoft's antispyware application, is unfortunately nothing to celebrate. Though it brings in an antivirus engine to supplement its antispyware scans, the program missed a large percentage of malicious files--including adware and spyware--on test scans. And using it is no cakewalk, either.

In scanning tests from AV-Test.org, a German security-product testing organization, Ad-Aware Pro found only 83.6 percent of 111,833 Trojan horses, spyware, and other malware samples. Its performance varied greatly by malware type; for example, though it caught a respectable 96 percent of remote-control "backdoor" malware, it identified only a dismal 77.4 percent of Trojan horses. Most surprisingly, it nabbed only 78.3 percent of adware and spyware.

Story at PC World - http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/product/541...ry_edition.html

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