App Review Ad-Aware Free Antivirus+ Prevention and Detection test by safe1st

[safe1st]

Thank you
and have a good weekend!

 

[TheMalwareMaster]

Good video! Does ad-ware have a home engine apart from the Bitdefender one? If not, ad aware Free is only a rebranched version of BD Free without active virus control

 

[safe1st]

Based on this site:
Ad-Aware Free Antivirus and Antispyware by Lavasoft | Protection from Virus, Spyware & Malware | Top Internet Security for Windows

Complementing its proprietary anti-spyware technology with one of the best antivirus engines available today (Bitdefender), Ad-Aware 11 features a packed, lean and powerful anti-malware solution, without the conflicts or slow-downs typically associated with running multiple security programs.

 

[Rishi]

I am actually surprised it worked flawlessly on your system, Ad-aware 11.10 was really buggy and a resource hog in my VM with massive,slow updates.I don't know if the new update broke something or fixed something.Anyways, nice video as always,pleasure to watch!

 

[Deleted member 2913]

It surprisingly did well...didn't expected the good result.

 

[safe1st]

I am actually surprised it worked flawlessly on your system, Ad-aware 11.10 was really buggy and a resource hog in my VM with massive,slow updates.I don't know if the new update broke something or fixed something.Anyways, nice video as always,pleasure to watch!

It works really well. Very light to be honest, its like you not install any security software tho.
FYI: VM is dual core and 3GB ram.

It surprisingly did well...didn't expected the good result.

Yup

 

[CySecy825]

Ad-Aware Have always excellent signatures,But unknown malwares they don,t have any kind of preventive tehnologies,(maybe firewall)


Thanks for review

 

[Rishi]

It works really well. Very light to be honest, its like you not install any security software tho.
FYI: VM is dual core and 3GB ram.

I ran it in Virtualbox clean OS on a desktop which is my secondary. I allotted 2 GB ram and lots of disk space yet it was slow to react, the previous version was light I agree but it did not work out for me, so I just deleted the snapshot.Maybe they have fixed it, saw same issues with new update on the web here n there.I will give it a shot once more.

 

[safe1st]

I ran it in Virtualbox clean OS on a desktop which is my secondary. I allotted 2 GB ram and lots of disk space yet it was slow to react, the previous version was light I agree but it did not work out for me, so I just deleted the snapshot.Maybe they have fixed it, saw same issues with new update on the web here n there.I will give it a shot once more.

Yes you can try it again.

P.S I want use this after my BitDefender TS trial is expired.

 

[Rishi]

P.S I want use this after my BitDefender TS trial is expired.

It is okay software, just not a lot of preventive features.I feel there are better freeware.You might want to take a look at older posts in the malware hub.

 

[safe1st]

It is okay software, just not a lot of preventive features.I feel there are better freeware.You might want to take a look at older posts in the malware hub.

I know, I have hitmanpro.alert
so its enough for me. Ad-Aware free av+ with hitmanpro.alert

 

[CySecy825]

I know, I have hitmanpro.alert
so its enough for me. Ad-Aware free av+ with hitmanpro.alert

Yes it is but signatures only???

 

[safe1st]

Yes it is but signatures only???

Yup, dont worry
thank you tho...

 

[CySecy825]

After Web test did your system is still clean?

 

[safe1st]

After Web test did your system is still clean?

Yes of course. I even disable all security softwares. so that doesnt interupt me while testing...

 

[TheSuperGeek]

I think a combo with private firewall, Crystal security and Ad-Aware free will be great !

 

[kev216]

Good video! Does ad-ware have a home engine apart from the Bitdefender one? If not, ad aware Free is only a rebranched version of BD Free without active virus control

According to this thread: Ad-Aware 11.10 they added some new engines in the new version, but I don't know if they are in-house.

 

[Deleted Member 333v73x]

Wow, that's a massive improvement, last time I used it back in 2011 for about a month, honestly IMO it was useless it struggled to block one to two week old malware

 

[kev216]

Wow, that's a massive improvement, last time I used it back in 2011 for about a month, honestly IMO it was useless it struggled to block one to two week old malware

Lol, that what the time that they were using the GFI Vipre Engine. Now they moved to Bitdefender (again a BD av), but you see the improvement very clearly

 

[CySecy825]

Well it left 41 in 13536 samples

excellent results