The Countdown to Ad-Aware 2007

[Chubb]

The Countdown to Ad-Aware 2007

http://www.lavasoft.com/company/newsletter/2006/12_31/article1.html

-{ Quote: "Download Release Candidate 1 for Ad-Aware 2007, available soon at www.lavasoft.com and check out the new-and-improved features yourself. Also make sure to tell us what you think. " }-

[EASTER.2010]

Publishing candidly i must, AND equally being a fiercely devoted Lavasoft online volunteer as i was at one time, and a tireless worker at that, i have to say it's been a long time coming.

What remains to be seen is if they (Lavasoft) have taken a newer & more determined course than the one they left behind, including a once wide-open forum to handle customer users both free and commercially licensed.

I worked with some of the most friendliest and i have to admit, intelligent volunteers who never drew a single penny from them, but advanced that product even in excess of the engineering departments efforts. For that i am eternally grateful, but they certainly made sure they took a back seat to almost every single AS that existed not to mention turned a blind eye to the honest concerns the inside volunteers tried desperately to bring to their attention.

Well, that was then and this is now. Being one if not THE most popular AS programs circulated around the globe for a time, all eyes are going to be focused on what is proposed to be distributed to end users/customers now.

Without a doubt AAW is fallen woefully behind the times and tumbled from it's former respectability to something rarely if ever mentioned anymore except those who been trapped or coerced in an endless circle of addressing product issues as well as expecting expert attention that fell far short from a business who was supposed to be an industry leader of sorts in their field.

Personally i harbor no ill will or sour feelings for them seeing the multitudes of developers who have stepped up and over their poor limitations, but as mentioned, remains to be seen if this, (another) announcement pans out to be a publicity move only for them or if this time they really delved into improving not only their product but taken the steps people have long expected from them in addressing their issues HONESTY or not.

[lodore]

so can Ad Aware reclaim its crown?
with this long due update.
only time will tell
i cant wait to see some screenshots.
lodore

[ASpace]

-{ Quote: "The Countdown to Ad-Aware 2007

http://www.lavasoft.com/company/newsletter/2006/12_31/article1.html" }-


It was high time they had made something better than the current one . I haven't used Ad-Aware for months since they had update problems .

[lucas1985]

There are not any "technologies" announces in the press release worth the wait:
-Incremental updates. A must-have today.
-Added scheduler. Another must-have.
-Better GUI. Important to few people, but it generates sales :P
-Improved Ad-Watch. Who cares; it isn´t available in the free version and real time AS isn´t the way to go.
-Enhanced Code Sequence Identification. Wonder how good is it.
The best wishes to pioneer Lavasoft, although I´m not holding my breath.

[Franklin]

Ad-Adaware - bah.

Just about useless except for the odd traking cookie.

[Carver]

-{ Quote: "Ad-Adaware - bah.

Just about useless except for the odd traking cookie." }-
I haven't use Ad-Aware in months, and before that all it was good for was tracking cookies. I was always hoping for a update that actually meant I would detect something with AD-Aware.

[cheater87]

YAY a new version

[pipester]

I haven't used Ad-Aware in years, or any other adware/spyware tools for that matter, but it's always interesting to see what new develpement brings to the table in the malware fight.

[rdsu]

Finally a new version!!!

[Londonbeat]

-{ Quote: "Ad-Adaware - bah.

Just about useless except for the odd traking cookie." }-

I disagree, people often bash Ad-aware, and I'll be the first to admit it's not the best, but when cleaning an infected machine I have found it to find remnants and registry entries on occasion that other 'top' AS scanners have missed. It may not have the same levels of detection as other AS scanners, but for those it can detect- it cleans very thoroughly, in my experience.

Londonbeat

[fcukdat]

-{ Quote: "I disagree, people often bash Ad-aware, and I'll be the first to admit it's not the best, but when cleaning an infected machine I have found it to find remnants and registry entries on occasion that other 'top' AS scanners have missed. It may not have the same levels of detection as other AS scanners, but for those it can detect- it cleans very thoroughly, in my experience.

Londonbeat" }-

This reflects my experience as far as cleaning up orphaned reg values etc leftover by the main players nowadays.

It will be interesting to see how the *new technology* pans out,which packers they can unravel,whether or not they hook the kernel for detection&cleaning/self protection etc

So pointless for folks to judge until it has arrived.

[Mrkvonic]

Hello,
Did anyone manage to find the download link? I didn't.
Mrk

[rdsu]

-{ Quote: "Did anyone manage to find the download link? I didn't." }-
You can see from the first post that the download will be available soon... ;)

[Chubb]

-{ Quote: "Hello,
Did anyone manage to find the download link? I didn't.
Mrk" }-

It is not yet available from the beta site but you can register to try the beta when it is available some time later:

http://www.lavasoft.com/support/securitycenter/beta_applications.php

It is a revamped beta site and all previous registrations were gone. I need to re-register again to log in to the site.

[chaos16]

Has it been released yet? coz when i update adaware the news says to upgrade to 2007 but on the istes there is not 2007 version?

[Rickster100]

Hello Chubb,

Thanks for supplying the beta testing link, I have made an application. Ad-aware certainly has a lot to live up to and a lot to prove now that there are many more competitors out there.

It will be interesting to see what happens over the next few months. I say months as I cant see it being released as a final for a while yet, since it will have to be beta tested first and its not yet available for beta testing at the moment. So "available soon" means a while yet - sometime in 2007! But I look forward to trying it out all the same when it is released for beta testing. 8)

Richie

[lodore]

i cant see it getting up the detection rate and beating everyone else but everyone could be surprised.
lodore

[Frank the Perv]

Flashback to Feb 2006:

Lavasoft website: Ad-Aware 2006 is in "Intensive Development."

Ad-Aware 2006 "includes fast and reliable scan engine, real-time protection, and scheduling."

Now that is revolutionary::) ::)

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/single/antispyware_poty.php

[EASTER.2010]

;D I A M S K I N Z ;D

Count Up To 2008 maybe? :shifty:

[Vissionary]

-{ Quote: "i cant see it getting up the detection rate and beating everyone else but everyone could be surprised.
lodore" }-

Neither do I... But amazing things do happen... Look at MS... They made an anti-virus... Looks like they do care about our security.... for 60$...

[lodore]

i am looking forward to ad-aware 2007 since the old versions used to be good.
lodore

[Frank the Perv]

http://www.lavasoft.com/company/newsletter/2006/12_31/article1.html


I'm suspicious that Ad-Aware is not really even changing.

It sounds to me like it's getting a new paint job with a few tweaks.

[lodore]

well only time will tell;D
lodore

[EASTER.2010]

-{ Quote: "http://www.lavasoft.com/company/newsletter/2006/12_31/article1.html


I'm suspicious that Ad-Aware is not really even changing.

It sounds to me like it's getting a new paint job with a few tweaks." }-

IMHO, and i'm not leaning toward bias even though after having become quite distant from them & that old Ad-Detector, AAW is fell so far backwards compared to today's ACTIVE! Leaders, that it's impossible for them to make any real impact in this field.
However since they do pride themselves on satisfying their Corporate base mostly anyway, that seems a likely target audience for AAW.

[Chubb]

http://www.lavasoft.com/company/newsletter/2007/1_31/

[fcukdat]

Yawn-yawn

Wake me up when it finally arrives???

[Frank the Perv]

-{ Quote: "We must first direct your attention to our fresh, new icon. Pretty nice, eh? You will see this on all Ad-Aware 2007 products and packaging." }-

That's right. Look at the cover, ignore the pages within 'cause you're going to be disappointed with years old technology that barely evolved from the present product.


"VIP Beta Testing Phase" = the thing is not even close to being done. They have only been working on it since early 2005.


Lavasoft is like Budweiser. Lots of people consume it even though it's not very good.

If Ad-Aware 2007 is a great product, I'll be the first to come back and apologize for the bashing.

But I'm pretty sure that Ad-Aware 2007 will be a slight evolution of the current product (which is desperately outdated) which they will tout as being something great.

[Rickster100]

FYI.....

[EASTER.2010]

-{ Quote: "That's right. Look at the cover, ignore the pages within 'cause you're going to be disappointed with years old technology that barely evolved from the present product." }-

rofl ;D

[mercurie]

Based on the countdown link it looks like it might just might offer some sort of real time protection. And I aint talking that stupid AdWatch either. :P

Note they are doing a retail box makeover too. ::) ;D ;D Pulezzz! ::)

[EASTER.2010]

-{ Quote: "And I aint talking that stupid AdWatch either." }-

I was a HijackThis Specialist AND Mod at their forums before they closed.

That wretched Ad-Watch hosed a lot of users machines and we never could get the code team to make the changes that was so desperately needed back then. Needless to say a lot of users were turned away by that alone.

I never did trust AdWatch myself and refused to even use it. I guess they feel time heals all wounds but a lot of users who got slammed by them are like elephants who will never forget, and who can blame them?

Besides, there are too many other BETTER anti-spyware programs where they don't turn their back on issues but go heads up after them to correct difficulties in their programs.

Lavasoft is definitely not one of them IMO. >:(

[Legendkiller]

kindly visit lavasoft blog...for latest info:http://www.lavasoft.com/company/blog/
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In Short:
RC1 will be released in early march to registered beta-testers....who can sign-up from the link posted there.

[EASTER.2010]

-{ Quote: "RC1 will be released in early march to registered beta-testers....who can sign-up from the link posted there" }-

Short and to the point. Loyal users no doubt can expect to remain in indefinite stand-by mode while efforts are put forth to fashion aaw for the next release.

Remains to be seen what will come of this. I venture to speculate that as long as Wilder's readers are included in beta-testing then some positive improvements for it are in the offing.

Let's track this progress and see just what developments come about from that announcement.

[mercurie]

Easter,
Instict told me not to use Adwatch after just a few trys with it. It made things not work right I guess you could say even unstable. I never could understand it. I am only a little savy on PC systems always learning though. Caused me to reboot but never messed me up that badly. Still what a total waste of money. :-[

Poorest security investment I ever made AdAware Plus :(

Best security investment I ever made BOClean :) I think it more then made up for it.

[EASTER.2010]

Many like myself have long since distanced ourselves away from that program completely when they went suddenly haywire by dropping the support forums along with canning some very intelligent and hard working volunteers who only had the users best interest at heart as well as the program itself.

Be that as it may it was no matter as anyone can plainly attest to today, other better programs overtook the popularity of AAW and have advanced onward with a loyal following by listening to even the gripes of their users and making improvements to everyones satisfaction. They take seriously user issues and see to it a users good system is not put at risk with either malware or their own program.

[polyglory]

-{ Quote: "Many like myself have long since distanced ourselves away from that program completely when they went suddenly haywire by dropping the support forums along with canning some very intelligent and hard working volunteers who only had the users best interest at heart as well as the program itself.

Be that as it may it was no matter as anyone can plainly attest to today, other better programs overtook the popularity of AAW and have advanced onward with a loyal following by listening to even the gripes of their users and making improvements to everyones satisfaction. They take seriously user issues and see to it a users good system is not put at risk with either malware or their own program." }-

Yes indeed , it was a sad day that happened.

Totally agree

[Chubb]

The Arrival of Ad-Aware 2007 - Beta and Beyond (from Lavasoft News March 2007)

http://www.lavasoft.com/company/newsletter/2007/2_28/article1.html

-{ Quote: "Ad-Aware 2007 will be available for download and testing in March...however Ad-Aware 2007 does not support Windows 98 or ME.

Ad-Aware 2007's beta phase is expected to last several weeks with the official commercial release of the product set for later this spring.

The final product will be released in three different versions: Ad-Aware 2007 Free (formerly known as Personal), Ad-Aware 2007 Plus, and Ad-Aware 2007 Pro. An updated version of Enterprise will be available later this year.

Those with a valid Ad-Aware SE license will be eligible for an update to our new product, completely free of charge.
" }-

[Legendkiller]

you missed this chubb,
-{ Quote: "Other features of the new-and-improved Ad-Aware include:

* Advanced Code Sequence Identity technology. Our improved CSI technology detects even more malware that is deeply embedded in your system and keeps you protected from the latest threat variants.
* Enhanced Detection Database. Incremental updates ensure a quick download from our comprehensive threat database, again freeing up your most valuable computer resources.
* New graphical user interface (GUI). The fresh, new look of our straightforward GUI means easy navigation through all of Ad-Aware 2007's advanced protection options.
* Automatic scans and Web updates. Set a personalized schedule for automatic scans and Definition File updates, letting Ad-Aware do the work for you according to your schedule and preferences. You'll never miss an update from the Detection Database again.
* Ad-Watch TrackSweep. The new TrackSweep feature clears browser cache, cookies, and history that are left behind while you surf the Internet on IE, Firefox and Opera, all in one easy click of a button.
* Ad-Watch Connect. The real-time monitoring of Ad-Watch is expanded to include an additional shield against hijackers and identify theft by preventing private information from leaving your computer.
* Hosts File Editor. This new tool gives you the power to add, delete or make changes to the Hosts File to block advertisement sites, reverse browser hijack entries, create navigational shortcuts, and assist with parental controls.
* Multiple Browser Support. Ad-Aware 2007 supports Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera - so now you can use the web browser of your choice.
* System Restore Point. Ad-Aware 2007's conveniently located system restore point means you never have to worry about accidentally deleting a file during cleanup." }-
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[fcukdat]

Yawn yawn are we there yet daddy ???

I have many trojans/advanced malware awaiting the big *Hype*to see if it really is all that special;D

[EASTER.2010]

Ho Hum. Heard it all before.

Seeing is believing. Anyone read anything in all that "hype" about whether or not it uses any type of HIPS like ST or offer rootkit detections yet?