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Ad-Aware SE Plus edition offers you all the power of the Personal edition, but has been enhanced with additional powerful features to protect your privacy. The Plus edition includes real-time protection through the Ad-Watch real-time monitor that allows you not only to detect privacy threats to your computer; you can also block them from integrating into your system in the first place!

Ad-Aware SE Plus edition also has more scanning capabilities, more detailed log files and many new command line parameters that allow you to update, scan, log, quarantine, and remove silently and automatically.

What’s new in Ad-Aware SE Plus edition?

• New results screens and detailed statistics
• Hardened against third party uninstall with encrypted preference files
• Links to more information on detected content from our website
• New safety option that allows you to write protect sensitive system files such as the Hosts file

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

Extended Registry scanning
• 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 Browser-Hijackers

Extended Disk scanning
• 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

Several User Interface improvements
• 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

Multiple New Tweak options
• Unloading of process modules during a scan
• Obtaining command line of scanned processes
• Ignoring spanned cab files
• Scan registry for all users instead of current user only
• Permanent archive caching
• Always try to unload modules before deletion
• Disable manual quarantine if auto quarantine is selected
• Block pop-ups aggressively
• Load Ad-Watch minimized
• Hide Ad-Watch tray icon
• Write protect system files after repair
• Limit drive selection to fixed drives
• Use gridlines in item lists
• Log file detail section condensed

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

Ad-Watch
• Several GUI improvements
• Ad-Watch now supports Cookie Blocking
• Site-manager to edit the popup-blacklist included
• Ad-Watch now uses the new CSI technology to detect new and unknown variants of known targets
• New Ad-Watch configuration screen
• New rules editor for pre-defined blocking exclusions

While Ad-Aware SE detects and cleans your system from known Malware and advertising parasites, Ad-Watch goes even further by catching these programs before they can integrate into your system.

You can lock the startup sections of your registry, block possible and actual browser hijack attempts, block suspicious processes, lock executable file associations, block malicious cookies, block pop-ups, and uses the all new CSI technology to protect you from unknown variants as well.

The new version of Ad-Watch includes a new site manager where you can edit the included pop-up blacklist. It also includes a new rule editor that allows you to configure Ad-Watch to pre-allow changes to the registry.

Ad-Aware SE is compatible with Microsoft Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 and Microsoft Windows Terminal Services