January 21st, 2009
Ad-Aware 10th Anniversary Edition released
A new version of Ad-Aware has been released, celebrating its 10th year of eradicating spyware from millions of users’ systems.
According to maker Lavasoft, Ad-Aware Anniversary Edition sports more than just a fancy new GUI:
- Uses 74% less memory than Ad-Aware 2008.
- Only uses 18% of the CPU during scans – nearly 60% less [sic] resources than the previous version, and considerably less than each competitor product tested, including AVG, Kaspersky, Norton, and PC Tools.
- Scans 36 MB per second – faster than each competitor product tested, and over 4 times faster than AVG’s.
As always, there’s a Free Edition available for download alongside the commercial version.
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