Ad-Aware is just an anti-spyware software, say it is an virus program that was developed by Lavasoft that helps to detect and remove malware, adware and spyware on the user’s computer. It helps to detect viruses, spyware, dialers, bots, Trojans, root kits, data miners, parasites, aggressive advertising, browser hijackers and tracking components. Lavasoft helps to freely download the software called Ad-Aware Free. It also provides other products for sale namely the Ad-Aware Plus, Ad-Aware Pro, and Ad-Aware Enterprise 2.1. It is the current version of Lavasoft Ad-aware Anniversary Edition created to celebrate the 10th year of its production of malware detection and removal.
Ad-Aware was developed in the year 1999 to help highlight web beacons inside of Internet Explorer. It was seen that on most of the websites there used to appear a tiny pixilated square next to each website. This appeared in order to warn the users that the computers IP address and other non essential information were being tracked by this website. Over a period of time they were able to block these beacons or advertisements. Ad-Aware does not make the user aware of these things anymore. It just on its own fights spy ware ad ware and malware. In the year 2008 they brought out the Ad-Aware Pro and Ad-Aware Plus as a bundled software with an anti virus scanner. This makes use of the Avira engine and is being continued even in the latest versions.
The Ad-aware Anniversary engine is currently the latest of the Lavasoft’s anti malware solutions. The new versions always include the integrated real-time threat protection software. The Ad-Aware Plus and the Ad-aware Pro include the anti protection software. Ad-Aware Anniversary Edition helps the computer users to fight malicious spy ware, viruses and malware in order to protect the computer from malware that could take complete control if the computer system and throw up pop ups, slow down the speed of the computer system and finally just halt the system totally. The Ad-aware helps to detect the hazardous content of the computer system, helps to detect the threat level and finally helps the user to block or remove the unwanted content.
The different versions of Ad-Aware that are available in the market are the Free, Plus, Pro and the Enterprise. The main differences between these three versions is the addition of the anti virus protection and extended threat detection. Ad-Aware Plus has additional features like the behavior-based heuristical threat detection, scheduled scanning network drive scanning and the Hosts file editor. The Ad-Aware Pro has all of the features of Ad-Aware plus and has in addition the command line support and the ability to scan other hard drives across the net. Ad-Aware Pro also has the Ad-Aware Live Expert and a Process Watch Module. Ad-Aware BE is mainly created for Business that needs to have control of all the computers across their network. The Ad-Aware BE has the necessary tools to manage and monitor Ad-Aware across the network.