Åsarp, Monday, August 9, 2004

Lavasoft announces the launch of Ad-Aware SE
- a new generation of Anti Spyware solution

Lavasoft currently distributes its anti Spyware application Ad-Aware to over 80 million home and corporate users worldwide including 3000 partners in over 120 countries.

Lavasoft started distributing Ad-Aware in 1999. 1825 days have passed since Lavasoft released its first anti Spyware application which has precipitated a wave of liberation that our users and customers have, and continue to, enjoy.

Ad-Aware has since been developed into a state of the art application that can keep pace with the increasingly sophisticated threats we face.

In the ensuing debate, users welcomed the advances made by Lavasoft during the past years in their further development of Ad-Aware. The stark and disturbing evidence has only shown us to well how system owners are suffering because of intrusive Spyware, with too many instances of users being subjected to extreme content and denied the control over their own systems or networks.

Lavasoft has supported the PRIVACY community from the very beginning and will continue to lead the way in taking the steps necessary to keep PCs and workstations safe and secure.

There is a category of Ad-Aware users that will always demand even more performance. We share their passion, so we created Ad-Aware SE, an innovative new approach – The New Generation.

Lavasoft, with its Ad-Aware technology, is widely known for delivering comprehensive and secure performance. Together with several newly developed techniques and our newly developed scanning technology Ad-Aware SE delivers heretofore unseen performance on both PCs and workstations. Just like in the past, where Lavasoft was one of the first to offer a comprehensive anti Spyware solution, we're proud to be the first again to offer a new generation, ground-breaking anti Spyware solution.

We would like to expand further on that statement and have therefore highlighted the key areas we have worked on during the past year to again further improve and ensure the protection of end-user desktops all the way up to the corporate and enterprise environment.

With Ad-Aware SE we show how to achieve modern, comprehensive anti Spyware protection.

NEW features in Ad-Aware SE Professional edition

- New command line parameters that allow for silent and automated operation of Ad-Aware

- UNC support for remote storage of Preferences, definitions, and log files

- New results screens and detailed statistics

- Improved logging and reporting

- Hardened against third party uninstall with encrypted preference files

- Links to more information on detected content from our website

- New safety option that allows you to write protect sensitive system files such as the Hosts file


Source: Lavasoft
Scanning engine improvements
Extended Memory scanning
Now SCANS all modules loaded by a process
Uses our all new CSI (Code Sequence Identification) technology to identify new and unknown variants of known targets
Extended protection against DLL-injection, SE can unload process modules on the fly

Extended Registry scanning
Now scans registry branches of multiple user accounts
Performs additional smart checks to detect dynamically created references
Scanning speed noticeably faster
Extended Scanning for known and unknown/possible Browser-Hijackers

Extended Disk scanning
Now scans and lists alternate Data-streams on NTFS volumes
Now Ad-Aware supports scanning of Cabinet files, (including spanned archives)
Scanning speed increased
Improved Hosts-file scan
Now Ad-Aware and Ad-Watch use much smaller reference files

Several User Interface improvements
Improved Graphical UI
Ad-Aware now supports custom graphical Skins
More user friendly Plug-in/Extension GUI (Plug-ins and Extensions now shown on separate screens)
New Scan Result view, includes a scan summary and detailed view
Ad-Aware now linked to the online TAC database

Multiple New Tweak options
Unloading of process modules during a scan
Obtaining command line of scanned processes
Ignoring spanned cab files
Scan registry for all users instead of current user only
Permanent archive caching
Always TRY to unload modules before deletion
Disable manual quarantine if auto quarantine is SELECTED
Block pop-ups AGGRESSIVELY
Load Ad-Watch minimized
Hide Ad-Watch tray icon
Write protect system files after repair
Limit drive selection to fixed drives
Use gridlines in item lists
Log file detail section condensed

Process-Watch
Improved Process-Watch scanning capabilities and scanning speed (Using the new CSI technology)
Several Process-Watch Interface improvements
Option to create a Hexdump of the process memory or dump the process memory to disk

Several logfile improvements
Includes support for separate removal logfiles
Allows adding a Reference summary/index to logfiles
Logfile contains overall more detailed information

Ad-Watch
Several GUI improvements
Ad-Watch now supports Cookie Blocking
Site-manager to edit the popup-blacklist included
Ad-Watch now uses the new CSI technology to detect new and unknown variants of known targets
New Ad-Watch configuration screen
New rules editor for pre-defined blocking exclusions
Support for hiding the Ad-Watch tray icon for unattended operation

Source: Lavasoft