Protecting The Privacy of Every Rehovot Computer User: Install and Run Lavasoft Ad-Aware Home Now!

"While the Internet is a powerful resource and provides users with many useful and often entertaining things to see and do, it also has its dark side. Most people are familiar with freeware, shareware, cookies, media players, interactive content, and file sharing. What they may not realize is that some of the aforementioned may contain code or components that allow the developers of these applications and tools to actually collect and disseminate information about those using them. They can track your surfing habits, abuse your Internet connection by sending this data to a third party, profile your shopping preferences, hijack your browser start page or pages, alter important system files, and can do this without your knowledge or permission. The security and privacy implications of these exploits should be quite obvious and undesirable on any system or network!

Lavasoft is the industry leader and most respected provider of anti Trackware solutions." They have developed several essential applications that will provide you with the means to keep your computer or network free of these compromising and intrusive threats to your privacy. Some of them (like Lavasoft Ad-Aware Home Edition) are free for personal use.

Source: Lavasoft home page (Last viewe3d 23 April 2005) [FullText]
More info on Lavasoft Ad-Aware Home Edition is available at Lavasoft Free Download Page.

Important: When your copy of Lavasoft Ad-Aware Home Edition is installed, please make sure you updated the software Definition File with the latest version. It can be done by following an update prompt while running Ad-Aware Home on your computer (automatic update) or manually by downloading the latest definition file at the Lavasoft Download Page.

Testimony by Download.com, The Major Gateway Site for millions of Ad-Aware Downloads

"One of the first applications built to find and remove adware and spyware, Ad-aware SE Personal Edition's excellent reputation is well justified. The sky-blue, skinnable interface features five buttons. The first two, Status and Scan, lead to the core function of the application. These buttons initiate a scan of your files for adware components. After scanning is complete, the program presents a summary of results, followed by a list from which you select exactly which components to remove. Right-clicking an individual entry gives some information about the piece of suspected adware, though we would like more details. Ad-aware SE can alert you to more malignant forms of malware by separating items into critical and negligible categories. The third button, Ad-watch, is nonfunctional in the Standard version. The fourth button, Plug-ins, shows you which Ad-aware plug-ins are installed. The fifth leads to the help files.

Ad-aware SE does an excellent job of quickly finding and removing most adware and spyware components, although you will have to restart and rescan for a seriously infected machine. We were pleased to see an auto-update feature included with the program, keeping Ad-aware up-to-date with the latest adware components. Ad-aware SE should be part of your arsenal for keeping your machine free of adware and spyware components." [FullText]

Additional Technical Notes for Advanced users. By Software Publisher.

"With the ability to scan your RAM, registry, hard drives, and external storage devices for known data-mining, advertising, and tracking components, Ad-Aware Home Edition (SE) easily can clean your system, allowing you to maintain a higher degree of privacy while you surf the Web.Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition boasts a number of improvements that leading Anti-Virus software usually are unable to fix. Extended memory scanning now scans all modules loaded by a process. Scanning uses the all- new CSI (Code Sequence Identification) technology to identify new and unknown variants of known targets. Extended registry scanning now scans registry branches of multiple-user accounts and performs additional smart checks to detect dynamically created references. Scanning speed is noticeably faster, and this version offers an Extended Scanning mode for known and unknown/possible browser hijackers." [FullText]