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Ad-Aware Plus
Developer: Lavasoft

Version: 6.0
Developer's Introduction:
Ad-aware Plus Edition is designed to provide continuous protection from known Datamining, aggressive advertising, Parasites, Scumware, Keyloggers, selected traditional Trojans, Dialers, Malware, Browser hijackers, and tracking components.
Ad-aware Plus has been enhanced with an all-new scanning engine. It is more powerful than any we have produced before! Plus is safer, faster, more comprehensive, and configurable than our previous versions and now includes the following:
Safety and troubleshooting
- Redundant archival backup capability
- An Archive content viewer and manager
- Sensitive memory and registry section Locks
- Enhanced logging and reporting capabilities
- Real-time alerts
- All new troubleshooting option to help resolve unhandled exceptions.
Speed
- Customizable file size limits
- Non-executable file exclusion
- Unloading of recognized processes, shell extensions and COM objects prior to removal.
Enhanced scanning and blocking
- Kill popups
- Reanalyze scan results using additional heuristics
- Block ActiveX and web installations
Configurable
- Plus specific plug-ins for greater functionality
- Operating system specific customization
- User interface customization
- Feature tweaking to allow Ad-aware to fit your system rather than making your system fit Ad-aware.
- Additional shell extension integration
For individual or stand-alone systems Plus is the solution you need to protect yourself from the worst that the Internet advertising world has to offer. Don't allow your privacy and system to be compromised, keep the Barbarians at the gate!
What's new in version 6.0?
- Brand new scanning engine
- Automatic quarantine (backup) function capability
- Reference update module fully integrated into the main program
- New and improved user interface
- Powerful program configuration options
- Includes pop-up stopper with customizable blacklist
- Blocks browser hijacking, Active-X, IE save attempts, and unwanted auto-start entries
- Well maintained and updated database
- Enhanced logging capabilities
- Exporting and printing of HTML reports
- Extended in-depth registry scans
- Advanced process browser that fully supports installed extensions
- Smart process-blocking, including filter lists
- Customizable automated scanning modes
- Powerful command line options for loading configuration scripts and reference files from, and sending log files to, remote drives
- New plug-in concept provides powerful expandability and updating without the need to download a new core-application
Supported Platforms:
- Windows 2000 Professional
- Windows 98
- Windows Millennium
- Windows NT
- Windows XP
System Requirements:
- Intel Pentium or higher processor
- 16 MB RAM
- 20 MB of available hard disk space
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