My own testing showed that malware cleanup isn't the product's strongest feature.Īd-Aware's full scan is speedy, taking just a bit over 15 minutes on my standard clean test system. Zero for one is a weak start perhaps they'll do better next year. This year for the first time they submitted Ad-Aware to Virus Bulletin for testing, but it failed to capture the VB100 award. Lavasoft doesn't participate in testing by most of the independent labs. All the nitty-gritty elements become available in advanced mode. There's also an option to take action automatically or to wait for user confirmation. You can also schedule various scan types on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis or scan on every reboot. Besides the basic full and smart scans, you can create a user-defined scan profile. In this mode, you can review malware-fighting statistics or go straight to the list of quarantined threats. You'll have to switch to advanced mode if you want to change any settings. That's about all-and that's all many users need, so it's fine. You can launch a scan, trigger a manual update, or verify that real-time protection elements are turned on.

The user interface starts off in simple mode, showing only the most essential controls and status items.

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