Ad-Aware is designed to provide advanced protection from known Data-mining, aggressive advertising, Parasites, Scumware, selected traditional Trojans, Dialers, Malware, Browser hijackers, and tracking components. With the release of Ad-Aware SE Personal edition, Lavasoft takes the fight against Spyware to the next level.

With Lavasoft’s all new Code Sequence Identification (CSI) technology, you will not only be protected from known content, but will also have advanced protection against many of their unknown variants. To further protect you, Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition also has the capability to scan and list Alternate Data Streams (ADS) in NTFS enabled volumes. In combination with the new scanning engine, Ad-Aware SE will scan your computer faster and more thoroughly than ever before!

What’s new in Ad-Aware SE Personal edition?

Hardened against third party uninstall with encrypted preference files

Scanning engine improvements
	Extended protection against DLL-injection, SE can unload process modules on the fly
	Extended Memory scanning
	Now scans all modules loaded by a process
	Uses our 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
	Performs additional smart checks to detect dynamically created references
	Scanning speed noticeably faster
	Extended Scanning for known and unknown/possible Browser-Hijackers
Extended Disk scanning
	Now scans and lists alternate Data-streams on NTFS volumes
	Now Ad-Aware supports scanning of Cabinet files, (including spanned archives)
	Scanning speed increased
	Improved Hosts-file scan
	Now Ad-Aware and Ad-Watch use much smaller reference files
Several User Interface improvements
	Improved Graphical UI
	Ad-Aware now supports custom graphical Skins
	More user friendly Plug-in/Extension GUI (Plug-ins and Extensions now shown on separate screens)
	New Scan Result view, includes a scan summary and detailed view
	Ad-Aware now linked to the online TAC database
Multiple New Tweak options
	Unloading of process modules during a scan
	Obtaining command line of scanned processes
	Ignoring spanned cab files
	Permanent archive caching
	Always try to unload modules before deletion
	Disable manual quarantine if auto quarantine is selected
	Write protect system files after repair
	Use gridlines in item lists
	Logfile detail section condensed
Several logfile improvements
	Includes support for separate removal logfiles
	Allows adding a Reference summary/index to logfiles
	Logfile contains overall more detailed information

Ad-Aware SE is compatible with Microsoft Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003.

Ad-Aware Personal edition is free for non-commercial use.