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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 the release of Ad-Aware SE Personal edition, Lavasoft takes the fight against Spyware to the next level.

With Lavasoft’s all new Code Sequence Identification (CSI) technology, you will not only be protected from known 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. In combination with the new scanning engine, Ad-Aware SE will scan your computer faster and more thoroughly than ever before!

What’s new in Ad-Aware SE Personal edition?
Hardened against third party uninstall with encrypted preference files
Scanning engine improvements

• Extended protection against DLL-injection, SE can unload process modules on the fly
• Extended Memory scanning
• Now scans all modules loaded by a process
• Uses our all new CSI (Code Sequence Identification) technology to identify new and unknown variants of known targets

• Now scans registry branches of multiple user accounts
• Performs additional smart checks to detect dynamically created references
• Scanning speed noticeably faster
• Extended Scanning for known and unknown/possible

• Now scans and lists alternate Data-streams on NTFS volumes
• Now Ad-Aware supports scanning of Cabinet files, (including spanned archives)
• Scanning speed increased
• Improved Hosts-file scan
• Now Ad-Aware and Ad-Watch use much smaller reference files

• Improved Graphical UI
• Ad-Aware now supports custom graphical Skins
• More user friendly Plug-in/Extension GUI (Plug-ins and Extensions now shown on separate screens)
• New Scan Result view, includes a scan summary and detailed view
• Ad-Aware now linked to the online TAC database

• Unloading of process modules during a scan
• Obtaining command line of scanned processes
• Ignoring spanned cab files
• Permanent archive caching
• Always try to unload modules before deletion
• Disable manual quarantine if auto quarantine is selected
• Write protect system files after repair
• Use gridlines in item lists
• Logfile detail section condensed

• Includes support for separate removal logfiles
• Allows adding a Reference summary/index to logfiles
• Logfile contains overall more detailed information

Ad-Aware Personal edition is free for non-commercial use.