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Article: Ad-aware anniversary edition (Pro): basic, inexpensive malware protection.(REVIEWS: SOFTWARE)(Product/service evaluation)
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- Computer Shopper
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- April 1, 2009
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SPORTING A NEW NAME to celebrate 10 years of fighting computer nasties, Ad-Aware Anniversary Edition (Pro) is comprehensive enough to bump up against the leading full-featured protection packages. It now offers real-time protection against infected applications, malicious processes, Registry tampering, and blacklisted IP addresses; in all, Lavasoft says the software can counter more than 2 million threats. And like the top packages, Ad-Aware now employs behavior-based heuristic detection, which lets it find new types of threats even before they're reported.
All this could take significant amounts of memory and resources, so along with the upgrade in capabilities, ...