Ad-Aware muscles up - Ad-Aware gets e-mail scans, tiered rootkit removal

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These guys at Cnet are great fans of Ad-Aware and AVG

I don’t know why

Maybe business motive but giving headings like ‘Ad-Aware Muscles up’ is too bad

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Ad-Aware MUSCLES up

[font=Verdana]Gets updated to version 8.2[/font]

Became more fatter and sluggish

;D ;D

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really i think that avast and avira is downtrodden in softpedia and download.com every time i go download.com i see a picture of avg and its powerful and amazing features and all they is pure blah blah avg still bad slow full of FPs anti virus

3

Well it did good in the latest test at “Malware Research Group” test

Malwarebytes 30/30
Ad-Aware 26/30
Superantispyware 9/30… :-\

But why must it be so big, 87.11mb download, when SAS is 7.17 and MBAM is 4.88 and performing better

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Think about this … AVG & Ad-Aware are most likely paying sponsors of those sites.

Hence, the preferential treatment on those sites.

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i dont know if you know something in programming and databases but the big size of ad-aware tell us that the code of ad aware not so optimized and not written so professional like the bitdefender update file it is bigger than a complete avast internet security,also norton and kaspersky.
really mbam and avast good in this point 8)

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Yes I thinks so. Eset was also very big on advertising campaigns, but really you do need to have the product good enough to support your claims. This is not so easy to do.

In this respect, avast makes far fewer hi-profile advertising plugs, but offers more in terms of product value for computer users. Through tough times, avast will always prove to be the one with the muscle.

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But the interesting thing this year is this

Avast now holds Rank 2 in Download.com’s last week download list but AVG still ranks 1st

AVG total downloads 1,758,099

Avast totals 1,242,981

Avira totals 783,694

I expect Avast to rise up to the top

But since Download.com is biased, I doubt it.

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AVG is good at coming first in those things - cnet downloads tell the same story, AVG nearly always on top.

In the real world when your computer is infected, those kinds of things dont help much at all. My only experiences with AVG were to find it splattered across a desktop system, usually thanks to infection of conficker malwares prior to Nov 2008. Would be not at all surprised to see this happen all over again.