That's bad news, and other packages have done much better. Bitdefender Antivirus Plus didn't just detect and stop our simulator, for instance — it successfully recovered the handful of files it had managed to encrypt. Still, our simulator wasn't real malware, and so Adaware's inability to stop it doesn't mean it won't protect against real world threats VirusBulletin's results already tell us it blocks almost all malware. But it would help us — and you — to have more trust in the program's abilities if we could see it regularly assessed by the main testing labs.
Adaware claims Antivirus Pro includes a spam filter, and its installed files include at least some of Bitdefender's spam filtering module. There's no sign of this in the interface, though, and the settings only mention scanning emails for 'malicious content. A Network Protection module blocks port scans, and hides the presence of individual network adapters from others on the network.
You can set up simple rules to define what individual applications are able to do online, or choose to block internet access by default, ensuring that nothing can connect to the outside world unless you've authorized it first. While that sounds great, there's no apparent intelligence behind it. Bitdefender's smart firewall monitors internet access and creates application rules itself, for instance; Adaware requires you to create rules yourself.
It might have some value for experts, but it's likely to be too much hassle for everybody else. Adaware's Parental Controls system turns out to be a simple web content filter. You're able to create multiple profiles for children of different ages, but these can't be applied to individual Windows user accounts, so only one of them can be active at any one time.
Essentially, you'll be better off with Windows 10's built-in tools. If you've not checked them out recently, type Family Options in the Windows 10 search box and take a look - they're surprisingly capable.
Adaware Antivirus Pro does at least include reasonable browsing protection perhaps because it's the Bitdefender engine , we found, with Adaware detecting most of our test malicious links. Even here there are issues, though. Visit a blacklisted site and you'll get a 'blocked' message, but there's no option to visit it anyway, maybe add it to a whitelist. Instead, the page suggests you turn off web protection entirely, revisit the site, and presumably turn it on again afterwards - not exactly practical.
Put this all together and Adaware Antivirus Pro's extras have little value, and can't begin to compare with the best of the competition. Adaware Antivirus Pro is an underpowered app with below-par malware blocking and a handful of weak extras. Even some free antivirus offer better protection.
The Cleanup module detects Registry issues, junk files, internet histories Chrome, Firefox, Edge, even Internet Explorer , chat history and other leftovers, and enables viewing and controlling startup apps which might be extending your boot time.
The junk file finder worked as expected, locating various leftovers, displaying total files sizes, and allowing us to review every file to look for anything we'd like to keep. It wasn't particularly effective on our test system, though, and we were able to recover more disk space with the free CCleaner The Startup module displayed apps, scheduled tasks and services launched when Windows starts, and allowed us to enable or disable them.
It works, but there's very little you can't get from Windows own Task Manager and settings pages. There is a lot of other functionality here, including tools to find duplicate files, securely shred confidential documents, recover deleted files, analyze drive use, and cleanly uninstall applications detect and delete files the regular uninstaller leaves behind. Most of these tools can't beat the best-of-breed freeware, though, and occasional issues left us wondering how trustworthy it is.
Why did the file recovery tool display an Out Of Memory error when it began a scan, for instance? That's not some trivial point. Some of these tools involve changing system-critical files and settings, and just one mistake could cause serious damage. Don't even think of using PC Cleaner Pro without having an up-to-date backup. Adaware Antivirus Total includes plenty of PC cleanup tools, but you can find similar features elsewhere for free. Check out our best free PC Optimizer list for more.
This is very useful if you want to do other things with the computer during the scan but, of course, gives longer scan times.
Ad-Aware also has a feature called sandbox, and certain files will be executed in the sandbox, which is more time consuming than only checking simple definitions as most antivirus programs do. Posted April 28, I had it minimized the whole time. Have you retried scanning? See if this time it also takes that long. There are articles out there on how to reset your clock, maybe those help. But I believe we figured out why it took so long; due to the program being minimized to my task bar.
I do have a second hard drive full of movies, but I believe it was set not to be scanned, not sure. But I'll definitely check that, and then if possible; do a scan on just that hard drive to see how long it would take. Thanks for your two cents anyways, always appreciated. BriMac 0. Posted May 7, I am experiencing the same issue. The lack of resources makes running any other program totally impossible for about minutes. Do you leave AVG open while scanning? Posted May 10, I got an HPf -- hard drive, 4GB memory and 4-core.
I got free Ad-Aware 9. I do this religiously. The malware and virus scans turn up nothing. The machine is clean. Full scans of only drive C are taking between 5 and 6 hours. That's ridiculous and I really, really hate it. Either it's the Lavasoft program, or it's the programming in my machine. I believe it's not my machine. Wusup wit dis? BTW, it scans under thousand objects. If we use 5 hours for the scan time, that's 40 thousand objects per hour. I get more angry just thinking about it cuz I got things to do.
I can't imagine that it will, given the machine's configuration, but we'll see. Posted May 11, Posted May 19, Ad-Aware full system scans seem to be taking for ever! I'm not sure if it's since the last Ad-Aware update I did or not, but it's certainly from around that time but every time I do a full scan it takes literally hours. I have a scan going now which has been running for over 12 hours. Is this typical of Ad-Aware these days for whatever reason?
Jack Hackett. Joined Nov 19, Messages 1, TIP: Have a good clean out of your temporary files before running a scan. Trusted Advisor. Joined May 12, Messages 84, Joined Jan 31, Messages 5, Last summer I made a switch to the companies that Flavalee has suggested.
Am VERY happy with them. Fast and EASY to use Just remember to keep them updated and run them on a regular schedule. Oh, by the way, both are free and available at www. Hi, Thanks very much for the advice, I shall do as you all suggest.
You are most welcome. If you can, let us know how it comes out. I cleared out my temp files and ran both - much faster! SuperAntiSpyware also found a Trojan - level 5 security threat - don't remember what it was called Win 32 something or other , so that was good. Thanks again. Glad you have made good progress!!! Now I suggest that you go into system restore, delete all restore points by turning it off then reboot the computer and go back and set a restore point.
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