Comments on: AAW6

AAW6

skallas — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 18:37:20 -0800

Ad Aware 6 released. The long awaited (at least for me) king of spyware detectors is now available for download.

By: ph00dz

ph00dz — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 18:38:23 -0800

woohoo!

By: UKnowForKids

UKnowForKids — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 18:55:13 -0800

THANK YOU JEEBUS.

By: jeblis

jeblis — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 18:57:46 -0800

Mmmm goodness.

By: lampshade

lampshade — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 19:01:41 -0800

The Majorgeeks ftp failed, bu one of the others is working fine. Thanks for the heads up on this.

By: blade

blade — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 19:03:02 -0800

Yay!!!!

By: Su

Su — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 19:17:30 -0800

And in other news, these other programs were updated, too.

By: ph00dz

ph00dz — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 19:19:38 -0800

Haha, su. Very funny... ... the thing is, I really find Ad Aware pretty useful. After all the controversy and whatnot, it's nice to see it finally come out.

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 19:21:34 -0800

Thanks skallas. I've been waiting for the new release, if only to get rid of the Xupiter crap that's been invading clients at work. I've been weeding that beast out by hand so far. Su lives to complain, btw.

By: Hildago

Hildago — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 19:24:15 -0800

Ahhh... 83 objects found and erased. It's good to have Ad-Aware back. Gracias skallas.

By: WolfDaddy

WolfDaddy — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 19:25:43 -0800

su, you may have been trying to be snarky, but your link will prove to be invaluable to me. So thanks.

By: Su

Su — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 19:26:59 -0800

Okay, then, let me put it this way: The thing's at version 6, so it's been around. It's not new or novel; [insert obligatory reference to posting guidelines/suggestions]. What is so phenomenally new/wonderful about this particular update that it requires pointing out and subsequent possible discussion rather than say, a TextAd? Tell us something about it. Sub-optimal post. Let's keep in mind that a large portion of my posts in the past have referenced pieces of software.

By: Hildago

Hildago — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 19:27:56 -0800

My question is, where's RefUpdate? Does it do it automatically now, or is that only in the pay version?

By: Hildago

Hildago — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 19:30:38 -0800

Sub-optimal post. Well, sub-optimal comment. Take it to MetaTalk if you want to complain about the posts.

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 19:33:49 -0800

skallas - how do you know that this product isn't a trojan horse which actually functions as "Meta-spyware"?

By: Wet Spot

Wet Spot — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 19:40:36 -0800

Because that would be wrong.

By: PrinceValium

PrinceValium — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 19:41:07 -0800

After all the controversy and whatnot What's the controversy?

By: skallas

skallas — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 19:45:29 -0800

> My question is, where's RefUpdate? Its integrated. I just ran the update on the free version. Check out this screenshot. >What's the controversy? Click >Sub-optimal post. Mefi is about the links. Post to metalk if its such an issue.

By: muckster

muckster — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 20:12:23 -0800

Thanks, skallas. Here's Scott Finnie's review.

By: Bixby23

Bixby23 — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 20:27:05 -0800

...and removal utility that has consistently lead the industry in safety, user satisfaction... Cool stuff, but I think they mean "has consistently led the industry"... Picking nits is my hobby...pray, continue...

By: Hammerikaner

Hammerikaner — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 20:28:10 -0800

I downloaded this today without even reading the MeFi post... I just randomly went to the ad-aware site because my computer here at work was plagued with spyware and ads. This is a bright light in one otherwise personally crappy day.

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 20:43:42 -0800

Yay! One Skallas detected and celebrated! :)

By: swank6

swank6 — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 21:19:01 -0800

Adaware 6 downloaded... Ref file updated... Computer scanned... 0 objects found. I dunno if that's a good or bad thing...

By: Recockulous

Recockulous — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 21:24:48 -0800

I am a little confused. I had 64 objects and they went into quarantine. Then two seconds later i get another pop up in the corner of my screen. I scanned again and found another 5 objects. Then again and found 1 more. How the hell do I stop them?

By: eddydamascene

eddydamascene — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 21:31:31 -0800

You cannot stop them.

By: scarabic

scarabic — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 22:10:36 -0800

I love this product, but UGH - that slogan: "AD AWARE - The morning after pill for the internet" wtf?

By: badzen

badzen — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 22:21:35 -0800

hey recockulous - try a virus checker also. we had a similar problem with a recurring instance of a bloody IRC Trojan last week, thing carried it's own instance of mIRC and would download and install spyware and viruses every login (I'm serious -- crazy shit there). it would rename itself explorer.exe (creative, eh?) and pop a mIRC window for a second on startup, connect to an irc server, download whatever nefarious package was waiting for it, then proceed to download and install gator, precision time, date manager, and a host of other scum-sucking apps btw based on that name you sound like one of my friends (though I'm sure they'd spell it differently)

By: Mack Twain

Mack Twain — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 23:59:38 -0800

Another great program I heard about on Scot's newsletter is Mailwasher. Preview, delete and bounce mail without downloading it. I'm updating my ad aware right now.

By: ralawrence

ralawrence — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 02:24:41 -0800

I used to use AdAware 5 but recently switched to Spybot - Search & Destroy after they stopped producing updates. Is it worth switching back to AdAware 6?

By: yerfatma

yerfatma — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 04:41:01 -0800

Is it worth switching back to AdAware 6? Who said anything about switching? I run both and it seems to work ok. (Of course, I haven't rebooted since running the new AdAware, so I reserve the right to come back and swear).

By: digiboy

digiboy — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 06:07:18 -0800

New AdAware hurts my eyes.

By: adampsyche

adampsyche — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 06:16:54 -0800

Thank you skallas!

By: stevefromsparks

stevefromsparks — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 14:51:34 -0800

Well, I had 467 cookies erased by version 6 that version 5.83 didn't catch. Can anyone top that?

By: Postroad

Postroad — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 15:04:24 -0800

what's so bad about sbeing spied on? My wife and I have neighbors watch us have sex. And all are happy for it.

By: ook

ook — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 16:24:03 -0800

Yes, but do your neighbors give you cookies?

By: cyrusdogstar

cyrusdogstar — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 18:30:45 -0800

Adware? What's that? :D Seriously, though, AAW is a great program if you do happen to run Windows, although the very fact that it exists saddens me, because it's testament to the ungodly amounts of adware/spyware out there. It'd be nice if it were illegal, but I don't see that happening anytime soon (*grumble grumble politically loaded anti-Congress comment grumble grumble*).

By: crunchland

crunchland — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 19:07:29 -0800

Be sure to update the reference file. I found 24 additional nasty files after I found 76 of them with the one that came bundled... decided to buy the cheaper version of the program so I could have the memory-resident Ad-Watch program, too. $26 well spent.