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January 05, 2005
Be aware of Ad-Aware
My laptop has been slowing down over the past few days, so I figured I’d get some software to check for spyware and other malicious goodness. I’ve already got Norton AntiVirus installed, but I wanted a product that specialized in spyware. So, I downloaded the new spyware protection software from McAfee. I ran it and it found some nasty spyware, but I still wasn’t confident that it had gotten everything. Then, I remembered that I had installed Ad-Aware 6 on my laptop about 6 months ago. So, I fired that up and ran it. It found even more spyware (damn, I should have been keeping up with my pc maintenance a bit better).
I decided that I liked the Ad-Aware interface and functionality better, so I downloaded the latest version (Ad-Aware SE). After I installed it, however, I found out that much of the functionality that you got for free with Ad-Aware 6 is only available in the paid upgrade version of Ad-Aware SE. So, just be aware that if you do upgrade to Ad-Aware SE, you’ll probably have to shell out the $30 to $40 upgrade price. Lavasoft says that they are discontinuing support for v6.0 (obviously, since there wasn’t much of a revenue model in it), so you don’t have much choice anyway, I guess. Yet another brilliant demonstration of using a free tool to gain massive market share, only to begin charging its already addicted user base. The strategy only works when you have a really good product, though, so hats off to them.
One quick note, though. I was a bit peeved that after I installed Ad-Aware SE, my Internet Explorer homepage was reset to http://www.msn.com. That was another nasty trick on Microsoft’s part to get people to use their portal. I wonder how much money they paid Lavasoft for that extra little (unwanted) feature? I use about:blank as my browser startup and homepage. Nobody gets free internet traffic from me.
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I actually preferred Giant Company's Anti-Spyware product until they somehow got sucked into the Microsoft vortex. However, it turns out that Giant either co-developed or bought the code from Sunbelt Software, because Sunbelt's CounterSpy product seems to be the same software wearing a different liesure suit.
Do a quick search for CounterSpy at download.com, I think you'll like it - especially since it blocks new spyware and updates itself like your antivirus does. It was worth $20 to me :)
Posted by: Josh | Jan 6, 2005 1:00:15 PM
Giant's anti-spyware is branded by Microsoft and beta 1 is available here,
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
Posted by: Manoj Agarwal | Jan 6, 2005 6:08:52 PM
I know this is a old post and I found this site randomly surfing other sites for other topics but...
Ad-Aware is a good program. And not everybody is rich and or even wants to work in a cubicle. So what if the developer(s) of a popular and good piece of software wants to try and make some $ for their hard work? Do you go to your job and work for free all day?
It would be great to just work all day...day after day and give away free software. But what many people don't understand is that eventually you will have to pay bills! And spending all your time giving stuff away isn't going to pay any bills.
People make money as database admins! People make money writing HTML as web designers! People make money drawing pictures! Why can't somebody who writes solid code that isn't working for some corporation try and make some money with shareware?
i usually see online young kids and really old rich guys are the ones who _hate_ on shareware companies/developers because its these idealists that don't have to worry about bills! If you choose to work 9/5 for some company making little functions for some whatever project thats great. But...
Anyways, I don' know where I'm going with this...nvm I'm sorry i'm ranting in some strangers blog i found 2 minutes ago :D
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Ironic that an article about ad-aware gathers so much blog spam...
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