Lavasoft Announces the Launch of Ad-Aware SE 1.06 - An Improved Update of the Award-winning Software

Lavasoft is extensively known for delivering the most up-to-date antispyware technology to corporate and home users. In the launch of version 1.06, Lavasoft introduces a new extensive revision to the Threat Assessment Chart (TAC) which has been improved with a more fine grained technical analysis of the target criteria, which aids users to better understand why applications are detected by Ad-Aware.

With the 1.06 update you can be certain to receive the best protection available against disturbing privacy threats with faster scanning and more efficient Code Sequence Identification (CSI) capabilities in both Ad-Aware and Ad-Watch.

For a complete list of updates and changes, click here .

Ad-Aware SE Plus and Professional editions
If you are a registered user of Ad-Aware SE you are entitled to this download at no additional cost. Please use your download link, username, and password supplied in the upgrade notice you received when Ad-Aware SE was first released.

For those that had difficulty receiving the original notification and were subsequently sent new download information from our help desk, please reuse the same information to download the latest build.

If you require new download information please locate your purchase reference/order number and send it, along with your download request and the applicable Ad-Aware SE edition you purchased (Plus and/or Professional) by using this form.

If you can not locate your purchase reference/order number please contact Element5 or visit Lavasoft Customer Center.

Ad-Aware Personal
To download the latest Ad-Aware SE Personal (freeware) build please go to our downloads page and choose the appropriate mirror site.

Note: The installer will recognize a previous installation of Ad-Aware and will prompt you to uninstall it prior to completing the installation of the new build.

Improvements:

• Disk-scan is approximately 30 % faster
• CSI scan is now more efficient
• Added "Scan for low risk threats" option, to scan for targets with low TAC index
• Ad-Watch CSI engine performance highly improved; using less CPU and Memory as
well as having a smaller footprint
• GUI adapted to use the new TAC

Important corrections:

• Freezing during scan (occurring on some systems) now corrected
• Combination of the +silent and +update command line parameters no longer prevents scan completion
• The +nodefnotice command line parameter now suppressing out-of-date" message on preferences window.
• Ad-Watch TrayIcon tooltip indicating the loaded definition file now refreshed when the definition file is changed or updated in Ad-Aware
• Several minor GUI improvements (Ad-Aware, Ad-Watch and Proc-Watch)

Minor corrections:

• The Extension submenu(s) are now disabled if no extensions are installed
• Average TAC rating for content detected during scan added to the scan-summary page
• Reghance related context menu options in Result and MRU list now updated if status of Reghance installation is modified in the Preferences.
• "Risk" replaced by "Relevance" on Object-detail window
• "Vendor" replaced by "Name" (result, ignore and statistic-lists)
• Tooltip for negligible objects now displayed as "MRU"
• Items in ignore and scan-result list now coloured according to their risk level (*)
• TAC rating added to object details (log file)
• TAC rating added to Statistic, Result, and Ignorelist tooltip's
• "Remove" button on ignore-list screen now deactivated if no objects are selected
• Numeric TAC index shown in the statistic list
• Number of Quarantine archives now updated after scan (without opening quarantine tab)
• Below/Above normal priority classes now correctly logged during memory scan
• "Clear" Button and related context menu option disabled if no statistics have been created
• Prefetched files detected during conditional scan now correctly shown in scan log
• Leaving focus from tweak window no longer switches text to black for deselected items
• Category List extended
• Warning message for URLS containing less than 5 characters added to URL editor