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What is Ad-Aware 2008?

Ad-Aware 2008 is the latest version of our award winning and industry leading line of anti-spyware solutions and represents the next generation in Spyware detection and removal. It is quite simply the most advanced solution available to protect your privacy. With the all new Code Sequence Identification (CSI) technology that we have developed, you will not only be protected from known content, but will also have advanced protection against many of their unknown variants.

Designed for Windows 98, 98SE, Win ME, Win NT 4, Win 2000, and Win XP Home/Professional you can be sure that you will have the most effective privacy protection that has ever been offered by Lavasoft. Ad-Aware 2007 will comprehensively scan your memory, registry, hard, removable and optical drives for known Data-mining, aggressive advertising, Parasites, Scumware, selected Keyloggers, selected traditional Trojans, Dialers, Malware, Browser hijackers, and tracking components.

Performing your first scan

Before you scan your computer with Ad-Aware 2008 for the first time you should run Update to make sure that you have the latest definition file. To do this:

1. Open Ad-Aware and click on the Update icon in the Definition Status box. Be sure you have an internet connection before updating.
2. It will prompt you saying that the Definitions are outdated, click yes to run the update.
3. It will compile a list of updates, click Download When it is done, click close.

When this is done you are ready to perform your first scan.

1. Click Scan now
2. Select Full Scan
3. Click Scan to start your first scan.

After the scan is completed you will be presented with a detailed listing of the items that were detected. Please be sure to review each item that has been presented in the results screen before removing them. Most items should be removed unless you are sure of their origin. Ad-Aware is designed to report possible suspicious content present on your system and to allow you a simple method for removing it should you so decide. We do not suggest or recommend that everything detected by Ad-Aware should be removed; it is up to you, the user, to make that decision. We understand that this may be a difficult task; therefore we have developed TAC (which stands for Threat Assessment Chart).

If you have decided to keep one or more items:

1. select them from the scan results list (be sure to deselect other content you wish to remove)
2. right click the entry to open the context menu. Either select each item individually for each component to be ignored, or use the selection options in the context menu.
3. Select the "Add selection to ignore list" to add this content to your ignore list. Ad-Aware will not display these items in the scan results when you perform scans in the future.

Once this content has been added to your ignore list you will be taken back to the scan results screen where you can repeat the above process as required, to not select anything more (all items are unchecked), or to remove the content as you deem appropriate.

Click the "Next" button on the Scan Complete screen to view the Scanning Results. Select the objects you want to remove by selecting them in the scan results lists or right click to select multiple items by using the context menu. Click "Next" and then "OK" in the pop-up window to confirm the removal.

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