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oliphant
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Bye Lavasoft

Nice usin' ya. Is detection such the problem that including an uninstaller is okay but going so far as to notify us of the existence (detection) is? If it warrants the inclusion of an uninstaller, it should warrant inclusion in detection.

But obviously I'm missing something since if we're supposed to use Ad Aware as I'm sure Lavasoft woudl like...how are we supposed to know that the 'offending' item is even installed so we can go get their uninstaller if it's not going to report the detection?

Smells fishy, more like damage control than a true change of 'heart'.

SSX4life
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Re: Bye Lavasoft

I'll keep using lavasoft.

They use a good (free) product for basic ad ware removal. If you don't like it you can always go elsewhere for other peices of software. However I do not see an issue with this, "yes they should just do a flat out removal of software, but it's their decision isn't it?". I disagree with the fact that companies try to bury their legitamacy in side tactics.

However due to their track record I will continue to use their software until they do not meet my needs....... well not my needs, the needs of people's pc's I fix.

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Re: Bye Lavasoft

said by SSX4life See Profile:

I'll keep using lavasoft.

They use a good (free) product for basic ad ware removal. If you don't like it you can always go elsewhere for other peices of software. However I do not see an issue with this, "yes they should just do a flat out removal of software, but it's their decision isn't it?". I disagree with the fact that companies try to bury their legitamacy in side tactics.

However due to their track record I will continue to use their software until they do not meet my needs....... well not my needs, the needs of people's pc's I fix.

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Yep. Same here. So far, it's only 1 item, of which I haven't seen in ages anyway. Probably because I use Opera anyway. It's always been a good product, especially for free, so hopefully, what it doesn't detect, Spybot will. But, like I said, I use Opera and haven't had any spyware in I don't know how long. These products usually just find the usual tracking cookies and MUI's.
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Plldwnyrpnts

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Re: Bye Lavasoft

Here's another reason to not give up on Adaware.

So many other programs find less spyware on your system than Adaware. You can basically catagorize Adaware with them. Less reliable.

But if you think ONE spyware/adware remover is all you need, you're only fooling yourself. Whenever I run into an infected system that I'm going to try to clean, I use: Adaware, Spybot, MS Antispyware thingy (now anyway), Trendmicro's home scan, Hijack this, AVG and whatever old virus program that was previously installed.

IhatemyISP
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I uninstalled it as well.

Toymaster
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I will stick with Spybot Search and Destroy...along with my donations...:)
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Slidetbone
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BS! Big time BS!
The user will never know when to use it. What a joke.
And this is the admission we have been waiting for?
This is the million dollar worded explanation they give. So short of admitting that they got paid off by WhenU.

Bye bye Lavasoft
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