I just realized that AA Se 1.06 Free is no longer supported....

there is Ad Aware 2007 Free that I guess is the replacement for it......

The question I have is that awhile back there was some talk about the new Ad Aware, not sure or remember if it was the Free version or Paid version, being very BLOATED....

Is this the case with Ad Aware 2007 being bloated?

Would like your experience with it if you have it loaded before I go and install it on my system.

Thanks

Ad-Aware 2007 is absolutely horrible. It's slow, buggy and prone to crashing. It also has a hard time removing spyware despite being able to find most of it.

The review from CNet can explain in greater detail the crap that is Ad-Aware 2007.

http://reviews.cnet.com/internet-security-and-firewall/ad-aware-2007/4505-3667_7-32786412.html?tag=prod.txt.1

Yes it's very slow and bloated. I was very disappointed with it. They should release a lite version of it with only the needed functions.

I guess it's only good if you don't have any protection or utilities in your computer at all.

I didn't even bother installing it on my new system. I now use a combination of Spybot Search & Destroy, SpywareBlaster, AVG Anti-Spyware, CCleaner and Windows Defender. All of them are free for scanning, but some of them have an auto-update mode or a real time mode you can spend more money for. I could care less about real time protection and auto-updating.

Damn I didn't know SE was no longer supported. That's sh*t. 2007 is garbage ...

AA 2007 also does not provide the same amount of granularity to the user. Choices are more limited, it was a lot slower (when I tried it out a few months ago on my day-to-day WinXP Pro system)

Immediately after running a scan (with no reported errors), I experienced severe corruption of about 1% of my system disk. Explorer would simply hang when it ran into corrupted files. Windows Backup would fail and terminate part way through. "Add/Remove Programs" would show that NO programs were installed (when I went to uninstall AdAware2007), and so on.

No corrective actions worked. My only option ended up being to restore from my latest backup copy. First time this has been required on this particular system in almost 3 years of constant 24/7 use. (drive hardware checks out 100% ok)

Thanks guys.....

This really suxs..... I had really good luck with the original AA 1.06 but I guess they started seeing money, which affected their programing abilities, instead of keeping core foundation of the original program.

Guess there will be one less tool in the PC utility toolbox....

It's truly amazing what the prospect of money does to some people.

I was in a partnership with one guy I trusted. We had done all the work to bring a product to the brink of full-out production. (prototypes, field-testing, etc). It had a lot of potential and was VERY favorably received by the test customers. I was within a week of telling the vendors to begin final assembly. (I'd performed the design work, and arranged all the parts acquisition, component manufacturing, and assembly. I'd also assembled and installed a large number of the units that went into the field tests, and analyzed the field test results and technical data.)

Right at this point he formally brought his son on board as the accountant. Immediately, his son started trying to change agreements I had in place with my partner, providing for diluting the shares, changing board position assignments, refusing to make the accounting information accessible on demand, etc. In short, making changes that would make it possible for them to effectively take-over the entire company and leave me with zero.

Since I held the keys to production, I insisted on a face-to-face meeting with my partner and the others involved in the planned corporation.

At the meeting, the people that were there, including his wife, son, and the attorney told me that my partner could NOT attend because he had a heart-attack, had been bed-ridden for awhile, and was almost at death's door...because of the stress that I had put him through.

Unknown to them, I arrived the night before at the same airport at the same time that the attorney was apparently returning from an out-of-town trip.

My "dying" partner was there to pick him up, smiling, looking in perfect health, and helping the attorney with his considerable luggage.

He looked perfectly healthy and in good spirits.

Clearly his absence from the meeting was a ploy intended to keep my partner from supporting our agreed-to statements about schedules, responsibilities, and terms of incorporation.

It destroyed what could have been a good company.

Just saw this ... Ad-Aware 2008 beta:
http://lifehacker.com/380853/ad+aware-beta-adds-vista-64+bit-compatibility

AA 1.06 was great AA 2007 is a bloated POS.