Great Product!

I got it at download.com

Also FreeRAM XP Lite is a wonderful utility.

Both are Free Downloads and Licences.

Ad Aware is a great little program. I used to run OptOut which was developed by Steve Gibson at http://www.grc.com he is my hero in the computing world. He stopped his Opt Out and let Lava Soft continue putting out upgrades for AdAware.

For all who are wondering, Ad Aware is a spyware removal application. Here is Steve Gibson's (my computing hero) definition of spyware:

"What is Spyware?

Spyware is ANY SOFTWARE which employs a user's Internet connection in the background (the so-called "backchannel") without their knowledge or explicit permission.

Silent background use of an Internet "backchannel" connection MUST BE PRECEDED by a complete and truthful disclosure of proposed backchannel usage, followed by the receipt of explicit, informed, consent for such use.

ANY SOFTWARE communicating across the Internet absent these elements is guilty of information theft and is properly and rightfully termed: Spyware."

I would recommend going to http://grc.com/optout.htm to read all about it. Big time criminals of this are Real Networks, the makers of Real Player, Comet Cursor and others.

This software really helps the overall security of your PC.

Thanks for posting the info Joey!

I have a ton of things I can recommend, but I can not seem to get it from my brain to the forum to share. Maybe too many hours of sitting in front of a computer!

I came up with 587 entries on AdAware. Is it OK to delete the REGISTRY ones? I put them in the IGNORELIST for now. There's about 25-30 of them and a lot are from an old GATOR program. I'm real leery about REGISTRY entries.

As far as AD-AWARE goes, delete those Registry Entries! That's where the smart bugs hide.
If that scares you, AD-AWARE gives you the option to back them up so you can restore them later.

Selecting IGNORE tells AD-AWARE to leave these items alone. Only do that if it's something you want.

I killed all of mine, no backup, and I'm OK.