[dba-Tech] Adware -- Lavasoft

MartyConnelly martyconnelly at shaw.ca
Thu Mar 1 11:47:36 CST 2007


You want to be running Ad-Aware Personal SE version Build 1.06 rl
Available from free download button
They changed the engine a couple of years back so did SpyBot

http://www.lavasoft.de

Susan Harkins wrote:

>Jon -- I do that, and I save it in the appropriate file. But that signature
>file doesn't seem to update. Of course, that doesn't mean that adware's not
>using it -- I just found it curious and didn't know really. 
>
>Yesterday when I tried to download the latest update file, it wouldn't work.
>:( Got a white screen with a little red x in the corner. I'm sure it'll work
>if I can just find the right option to set. 
>
>Susan H. 
>
>If you go to www.lavasoft.de, you can manually download the latest
>definitions, it's a small zip file which you unzip and extract the contents
>to the rogram files folder. Then you can be sure that it's using the latest
>ones.
>
>
>Jon
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Susan Harkins [mailto:ssharkins at setel.com]
>Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 1:16 AM
>To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
>Subject: [dba-Tech] Adware -- Lavasoft
>
>
>I've been using Lavasoft's Adware for a long, long time. I download the
>updated definition files, but I'm not sure it uses them. The signature file
>that displays at the very bottom of the window is 029-1.06.2002. I'm
>assuming that the 2002 is a year. I just noticed this the other day. I hate
>to think I've been using it all this time with an outdated def file. I
>checked the configuration and it's pointing to the right folder. 
>
>Susan H. 
>
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