CD from the McAfeeHelp.com Forums has graciously highlighted here an issue that should be considered before running Lavasoft's popular anti-spyware program Ad-Aware this week:
Please don't run AdAware (seems limited to the free version) without extreme caution this week. It's killing internet connection, running system restore isn't fixing it for all.
More information can be found at the Lavasoft Support site here. As far as I know, the company has not released information on the problem, but users may want to consider waiting before they update their definitions just in case.
The folks at Lavasoft produce Ad-Aware for free and it is among the problems that I recommend most frequently. It is an excellent program, and comes from a small company. There is no evidence that these problems are part of any continuing pattern that I can see, so I will still feel confident in recommending Ad-Aware after these problems are resolved.
Posted
Mar 11 2005, 04:53 PM
by
trafton