What is Ad-aware?
1.
A bad adware/spyware scanner that started out great years ago as "Ad-Aware SE PERSONAL" and slowly went bad to Ad-Aware 2007 and 2008. Decent detection of spyware but consumes too much memory and resources. Bad customer service, bad GUI, and extremely large for what it does. Secretly has a process running in the background and acts more like spyware than removing spyware. Takes forever to scan and doesn't usually finsish, instead it freezes and you'd have to start over.
I used Ad-Aware SE and it was awesome. Now, I use something else because I can't stand it.
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A decent program by Lavasoft that scans and deletes/quarantines most
All the crap in your computer is making it slow. Scan it with Ad-Aware. Or something better if you can.
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