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.
With Lavasoft's Code Sequence Identification (CSI) technology, you will not only be protected from know content, but will also have advanced protection against many of their unknown variants. To further protect you, Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition also has the capability to scan and list Alternate Data Streams (ADS) in NTFS enabled volumes.
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Additional parameters for skinning
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If you're interested in more information about a given file than Ad-Aware supplies in the "Scanning Results" screen, choose The FileSpecs add-on from the right-click menu under "Extensions | Show File-Details". The add-on will provide you with a wealth of data about the file, including File Information Resources (file name, location, size, creation date, and the last time it was accessed or modified), and PE Information, including complete PE Header information. FileSpecs works with Ad-Aware Professional.
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Latest referencefile for Ad-aware, a free multi spyware removal utility.



To install, unzip into your Ad-aware and restart the program. Ad-Aware includes a web updater, so downloading this manually is optional. Download ... more

Layered Service Providers (LSP) are small pieces of software that can be added or inserted into the Windows TCP/IP stack by other software. Data outward bound from your computer to a legitimate destination on the Internet can be intercepted by an LSP and sent somewhere other than where you intend it to go. LSP Explorer lets you view active LSP and Name Service Providers on your system, along with detailed information about each so you can determine whether or not they are legitimate. Access LSP Explorer can be run directly from the Ad-Aware SE add-ons menu. LSP Explorer is part of the Ad-Aware SE add-ons package and works with all versions of Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE. ... more

Enhance your Ad-Aware SE for free with the Ad-Aware SE HexDump add-on. With many files - cookies for example, there is no easy way to view any information about them. The Ad-Aware SE HexDump add-on makes this task easy, by providing you with additional information that you may find handy such as the URL of the originator of a cookie. The Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE HexDump add-on is free and works with all versions of Ad-Aware SE. Download Ad-Aware SE HexDump Plug-in v1.0 ... more

Lavasoft’s new plug-in VX2 Cleaner detects the malware VX2 and offers you the ability to remove it from your computer. Some users have experienced a very difficult variant of VX2 which cannot be removed by Ad-Aware. For those users which have this variant, we have developed a plug-in to help you remove this VX2 variant.
This VX2 variant registers itself in a way, which gives it system privileges. It also prevents the user from viewing this information by removing the user’s rights to do so. Furthermore it constantly monitors the registry and prevents any attempts to remove its associated values. This makes it very difficult for the user to manually remove it.
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This is a reference file update for Ad-aware to detect and remove the newest advertising systems.


Once the update has been applied, you can delete the reflist.zip file as it is no longer needed.Latest Changes:

Several generic browser hijackers Trojan.Win32.Bizten Trojan.Win32.Ilka32 Download ... more

Latest referencefile for Ad-aware, a free multi spyware removal utility.


To install, unzip into your Ad-aware and restart the program. Ad-Aware includes a web updater, so downloading this manually is optional. Download Ad-aware SE referencefile SE1R5 22.08.2004 ... more

This is a reference file update for Ad-aware to detect and remove the newest advertising systems.


Once the update has been applied, you can delete the reflist.zip file as it is no longer needed.Ad-aware Reference File SE SE1R4 16.08.2004
Ad-aware Reference File 01R338 19.08.2004
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This is the new definition file for use with Ad-Aware SE Build 1.03,Unzip the archive, replace the existing file and restart Ad-Aware/Ad-Watch.
You can also use the webupdate component implemented in Ad-Aware to install this update. Download ... more