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Hi Karen! 

Your observation is as usual bullseye!

That's why I did not upgrade to this version but stuck to the Anniversary Edition which incidentally is the earlier version; yours I guess is the latest version.

Karen I'd like to share an observation with you. I make this observation after the global recession began, (Europe & Australia continue to reel from it & most parts of Asia too!)

What even trustworthy apps are doing is to tweak coding in a manner which improves their profit by reducing their cost. They are moving to slower update servers, the update breaks if one is a light user of their product (rather than being a heavy user), via IP address the coding identifies if geographically the user aka you & I is in a country or continent where there is a cluster of heavy users etc etc etc

This naughtiness in coding then controls the update server also. Apart from this to serve or appease the apps own insecurity (its bad times for Ad Aware incidentally over the last few years) the app tries to dominate the boot up to crowd out competitor apps etc etc etc

As users we get caught in the middle. Ad Aware will also nudge you for weekly updates. Don't fall for it.

That's why I use the Anniversary Edition of Ad Aware & update daily. I resolutely keep refusing weekly updates. There are other naughty apps too out there. Out of experience I suggest uninstallation & use the Anniversary edition please.

I see merit in using the AE edition because Ad Aware is still a good app to have. Just observe the types of malware it catches in AE edition & you'd agree with me.

I do empathise with you. It feels lousy

Ramesh

http://www.download.cnet.com & click on the free subcategory. Select Anniversary Edition version 8.0.

BTW it is free. Upon receiving your post I'd rushed off to check it for you. I think their server is slow presently. Please wait rather than going to any other site.

I say this because this "good boy app" has been playing hide & seek with its version number. Perhaps it could not handle the pessure of facing up to a bad day or looking trouble straight in the eye.  So take it only from http://www.download.cnet.com

As you already know when it comes to cleanliness this site i.e.  http://www.download.cnet.com is SNOWHITE

Ramesh

amnesia – you are absolutely right

Ramesh

Dear All,

AdAware Anniversary Edition. Solution:-

1) I have the installer exe & can give it to you. The installer is clean & has full file integrity too. How do I send it? It is 35.7mb?

2) http://www.filehippo.com "might" have it. I have checked. He says it is AdAware 8.2.0.0. *Please don't get thrown off by that 8.2 bit. It might well be AdAware Anniversary 8.0. Therefore 1 or some amongst us please check. You can uninstall it & inform others if it is not

3)Softpedia explicitly states that this edition stands withdrawn. *It is definitely being supported even now. I confirm that*

3)BTW the md5 checksum of the exe on http://www.filehippo.com differs from the md5 checksum of the exe I have on my hard disk. I've never concluded that thaerefore it is not the same because:-

• checksums may either include the ini
• checksums sometimes exclude the ini

4)Let me know if you choose point 1

One learning I wish to share:-

Many apps are playing this version number hide & seek game after the global recession began just to increase sales/user base. It's an old software trick trying to increase sales by upgrading version/adding feature. This devilry often can be caught if user comments of the new version is adverse, users in fact ask us to revert to an earlier one or there is no credible changelog (may even be all the 3)

Incidentally the main blog (Ashraf's article on which OS is best) even points this devilry among other things

Ramesh