Ad-Aware 5.8 Released!

Quote from Lavasoft boards:

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Announcing Ad-Aware 5.8!

New in this release:

OpenMe.exe,
the recent GoHip version,
Network-Essentials,
DownloadWare,
ImiServers IEPlugin
and additional browser hijackers,
and some minor fixes and improvments as always..

Also, This update uses a new Referencefile format, please read
here for further details:
http://www.lavasoft.nu/note.html

[glow=red,1,300]***Be advised***
The new Reffile format is not backward compatible with previous
versions of Ad-Aware. This is also true with previous reflist.sig
files and Ad-Aware 5.8. So please be sure to update to v5.8 which
includes the new reffile (005-29-04-02)

*Please uninstall all previous installed Ad-aware versions before installing  this update.[/glow]

Future release of RefUpdate planned within the next few days to a week. Please watch this forum for the announcement.
Proposed update includes:
Proxy support
Additional servers

Plus users

Ad-aware Plus users are instructed to use their username, password and link received in the announcement email for version 5.71.
You will still be receiving your email notification as normal.

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Ann - Christine  Åkerlund
Team Lavasoft

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Because of new reference-file file name, Ad-Aware Checker will be updated soon to cover the new version (with a checkbox for 5.71 and below, and 5.8 and above).

-javacool

 

A small correction to the release notice


*Please uninstall all previous installed versions before installing  
this update.

Should say

*Please uninstall all previous installed Ad-aware versions before installing  this update.

Ann
bee@lavasoft.de

 

For anyone having problems un-installing their previous version of AA, this was posted on the LS site:

"To everybody who have problems uninstalling the recent version:

To manually uninstall AAW, please do the following:

1.Delete the entire AAW folder
2.Delete these registry keys:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Lavasoft\AD-Aware

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Ad-aware 5.71 ".

Note: The second key listed may not be there if you have the version of AA with the un-install problem - if so, just delete the first one.

I'm moving this post to Privacy Software. Pete