Thanks entirely to the ridiculous deluge of spam, popups, and annoying banner ads you see online, adware removal programs have become a hot market, so you have a lot of options for kicking adware out of your computer. So many options, in fact, that it’s not very easy knowing which product to go with. Even when you narrow it down to the very best adware killers available, you still have to make a choice and stick with it.
So below, we’re going to review one of the very best of the very best of the adware removal programs available. We’re talking about Ad Aware of course.
Ad Aware has long been the default, go to download for simple, one shot adware removal (and the name is a pretty clever pun, too!).
Ad Aware is actually a quite sophisticated system. Where many adware spotters only identify known, reported adware programs by referring to their database, Ad Aware can actually spot unknown adware programs by behaviour alone.
What really impresses users, though, is the fact that, while the program is full of configuration options and so on, it is completely devoid of useless bells and whistles. It’s easy to configure as you like it, it’s got a great, streamlined, lean, easy to use user interface, and is simply one of the most user friendly adware killers out there.
Another great thing, for Windows users, is that you can fully integrate the program into Windows Security Center. This means that, by simply adding the two programs together, you can literally have complete, one hundred percent coverage against viruses, Trojans, worms, spam, and, of course, adware.
One of the newer versions, the Anniversary Edition 8.0, garners an average user rating between four and five out of five stars, depending on where you go for your reviews, and works with Windows Vista, Windows 2000, and Windows XP, so simply put, nearly all Microsoft users are covered.
Of course, for many readers, none of this comes as news in any way, shape or form. Ad Aware has long been considered the king of adware scanners (which is exactly why, mind you, they can get away with calling this one the Anniversary Edition).
There is a great free version you can use with no limitations, however, the paid edition is where all the sweet stuff is. Still, even the free version can more than hold its own when weighed against most paid adware killers.
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