Adaware

Anyone read this?

http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/60311


Sven

 

Bummer!

 

Email from AdAware

I Emailed AdAware about this, Here is their reply.....

Dear Sir/Madam,

First and foremost, Lavasoft does not have collaborations with any company that has or will have content detected by Ad-Aware. WhenU was indeed removed from our database by research in the last definition file. This was due to WhenU not scoring more than 2 TAC points at the time. In case it turns out that the removal was incorrect, WhenU will naturally be reintroduced to the database.

Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any further inquiries

Best regards,

Merja Turpeinen
Marketing Specialist
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Nicolas Stark Computing AB - Lavasoft
Porkkalankatu 20 A | 00180 Helsinki | Finland
Lavasoft | Sweden | Finland | USA

 

I'm really happy to hear that, Geri - thanks for sharing their reply!

 

To expand on that email response;

http://www.lavasoftsupport.com/index.php?showtopic=59013# ......12th post, by Mike W

This has generated alot of fuss by many suspicious folks, thinking the Lavasoft team was paid-off to drop WhenU from it's detection rules. I personally feel they need to re-think. Lavasoft has always followed a strict set of guidelines as to what does and doesn't get added to their detection rules, or what might be removed from them, as noted in the link above. I feel this is the main reason Ad-aware does not remove all scum-ware, and needs to be supplemented with other anti-spyware programs, such as Spybot S&D. I'm very happy that there is a program as good as Ad-aware, dedicated to the removal of malware/adware/spyware, and has a fully functional FREE version, which many, many people world-wide have benefitted from and will continue to.

The Lavasoft Team and Ad-aware still have my confidence, and I will continue to use and recommend it's use and support.