LavaSoft Ad-Aware Plus

List Price: $29.99 Discount Price: $27.28

Features:

• Improved registry scanning, permanent archive caching, and limit drive selection to fixed drives
• Block attempts to lock your registry or hiujack your browser by Adware - as well as all cookies and pop-ups
• Advanced CSI technology detects new and unknown variants of known targets
• New site manager for editing the pop-up blacklist and set new rules
• Support for separate removal logfiles, adding a Reference summary/index to logfiles and more

Customer Reviews:

Questionable [Posted on 2006-01-20]
I bought this product about three months ago at Office Max because it seemed my computer was running a little too slow.
I suspected I might have spyware, adware, whatever you want to call it and something had to be done.

What made me buy this one out of all the others was the catch phrase "award winning". I suspect now that the award just might be a company award. Is there an academy award thing for this kind of software and if so, just who attends the awards ceremony???

Ok, here is what I have a problem with; after I downloaded the Ad Aware SE Plus 1.05 and got it running, I was prompted to update my software. So I clicked appropriate button and was then told "I could get a free upgrade to version 1.06". I read the conditions and was under the impression that only owners of 1.05 could get this.

Ok, so this is free, "why not" I said to myself. So I clicked, and clicked, and clicked some more and got no where. I kept getting placed in the Company store to BUY the same product I just bought.

So I went back to the original page and read it again. It said in order to upgrade I needed the "purchase reference/ order number". How dumb of me I thought! I wasted a half hour online when I could just get this off the box or disc,"right"???

So I looked all over and found, "there was no number". Starting to become fustrated I went back to the intro web-page. It said if I couldn't locate my reference number to contact the "Element 5" office or the "Lavasoft Customer Center".

So that is exactly what I attempted to do. What a major task that was! I finally sent off a less than happy e-mail to this "element 5" office. Too bad I did not save the response because I would post it here.

The "element 5" (what a name), said they could not upgrade my product because I had purchased it thru a third person (meaning "Office Max").

I ask you whoever is reading this, "what kind of salesmanship is that"??? If that is not a tactic to make people buy the same product twice, then what is it??? What else is this company doing I wonder??? If thats the way they conduct business then I wonder if they are the ones creating some of the spam and spyware???

Bottom line, if you buy this product thru Amazon, you will NOT be able to upgrade. My computer never did go noticeably faster until I cleaned out my internet catch. I'm wondering just what "adware stuff" is program is really finding???

Excellent, but buy from Lavasofts site... [Posted on 2006-05-02]
I recently heard that people who bought the software abroad couldn't update. I bought the software through the site (a little more costly but comes with backup cd and an immedient download). Product works great and I have no problems with it. I would buy lavasofts firewall if it didn't conflict with my Norton 2006 Anti Virus firewall (trust me NAV 2006 is underrated, but i highly suggest making a system backup and having a computer professional install it because it can cause some problems). Although this program has a free version that scans and deletes, the Ad-aware plus has many better features (ad-watch, VERY faster scans, and other security features). I would reccomend this product to everyone, but don't buy from amazon buy it from lavasofts site, otherwise you probably won't be able to download updates for it...

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