Ad-Aware has discontinued updating Ad-Aware 6 SE Personal.
Why?
They say the basic design of this version is no longer capable of dealing with current malware threats. To correct this, they have released Ad-Aware 2007.
The Problem:
Reviews and comments all over the web, including on their own forums, show the new program is buggy and takes up a lot of system resources. You can read about the problems and the requests not to discontinue Ad-Aware SE on their own forums.
What To Do:
1. For now, they are still supporting the for pay version of Ad-Aware 6. You can download updates, here. The current version is SE1R215 23.01.2008.
At the upper right side of the page, you'll see the link to download the current definition file. It's a zipped file. Download it, unzip it and cut and paste it to the Ad-Aware program folder.
C:\Program Files\Ad-Aware
You will be replacing the older file by the same name so, if the system asks you if you want to overwrite it, check "Yes."
I've tried this on my own system, and I haven't seen anything that suggests it isn't working correctly.
I hope Ad-Aware will fix the problems with the new version, but meanwhile, I'll be looking for a good free replacement. Please post if you see any problems with using the Ad-Aware updates. I'm just hoping this is a reasonable short term fix until they get it right.
Which reminds me... SpyBot has a new version, 1.5 DO NOT install it. Their forums also report that it has problems that have not yet been resolved. Fortunately, they're still updating ver. 1.4.
Why?
They say the basic design of this version is no longer capable of dealing with current malware threats. To correct this, they have released Ad-Aware 2007.
The Problem:
Reviews and comments all over the web, including on their own forums, show the new program is buggy and takes up a lot of system resources. You can read about the problems and the requests not to discontinue Ad-Aware SE on their own forums.
What To Do:
1. For now, they are still supporting the for pay version of Ad-Aware 6. You can download updates, here. The current version is SE1R215 23.01.2008.
At the upper right side of the page, you'll see the link to download the current definition file. It's a zipped file. Download it, unzip it and cut and paste it to the Ad-Aware program folder.
C:\Program Files\Ad-Aware
You will be replacing the older file by the same name so, if the system asks you if you want to overwrite it, check "Yes."
I've tried this on my own system, and I haven't seen anything that suggests it isn't working correctly.
I hope Ad-Aware will fix the problems with the new version, but meanwhile, I'll be looking for a good free replacement. Please post if you see any problems with using the Ad-Aware updates. I'm just hoping this is a reasonable short term fix until they get it right.
Which reminds me... SpyBot has a new version, 1.5 DO NOT install it. Their forums also report that it has problems that have not yet been resolved. Fortunately, they're still updating ver. 1.4.
