(RC1 for a beta software? Who in their right mind heard of that misuse of terminology? Must be a publicity thing).Anyway, a friend of a friend knows someone . . . well you get the picture. I got the glorious beta. GAWD is it butt ugly. I think A-C musta been gazing at the sky from their illustrious cottage and decided to use that same bright sky blue for AAW 2007. What a shame. Blue is my favorite color but not so much of it and not so bright.
But, on to brass tacks. I suppose I can't say too much about it in public 'cause of the beta tester agreement. One really frightening addition I have to mention though is the default removal of malicious LSPs. Based on Lavasoft history of breaking the LSP chain, I immediately unchecked the default setting. Nobody or nothing automatically removes anything from my computer.
I picked a full scan since this was the first. They're using a fancy term, must be another publicity gimic, scanning "hashes". Cracked me up.
So the scan started. After 40 minutes though, POOF!
So what's that all about? Sure, I allowed the service when installing because of the highly touted incremental updates. Isn't that what the service is for? Why is the service needed to scan?
I did get a log for as far as the scan got (about half done in 40 minutes before the crash -- excuse me, graceful termination). So, what serious threats did Ad-Aware 2007 Alpha/Beta/RC1 find?
! ! ! 16 cookies ! ! !
I'm absolutely certain that my computer is under serious threat of something or another from the likes of www.viruslist.com. Do you think the folks at Kaspersky are concerned?
SeenItAllBefore says that Lavasoft Alpha/Beta/RC1 is definitely NOT ready prime time.
