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Article: Worth Ad-aware update.(Quick Takes)
- Article from:
- Australian PC World
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
- Author:
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Lavasoft's Ad-Aware SE is one of our favourite pieces of software: great for detecting and removing spyware that infects systems. So why pay $US27 for the Plus version? The reason: real-time protection.
We installed Ad-Aware SE Plus, version 1.05, on a Windows 98 PC and on a Windows XP machine (the installation process automatically removes previous Ad-Aware versions).
Ad-Aware SE Plus then automatically connected to Lavasoft's servers and updated its spyware signatures before its first scan.
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