Earliest adopters of updated program should download again to ensure full security.

Mary Landesman, special to PC World
Friday, August 13, 2004

Just days after Lavasoft launched new versions of its popular Ad-Aware security program, PC World tests revealed a significant security issue that has prompted Lavasoft to quickly to patch the program--but the company's update procedure may leave some customers vulnerable.

Users who are running versions of Ad-Aware SE Plus or SE Pro earlier than the current v1.03, which is available now for download, should redownload their copies of the application. This is Ad-Aware's third update in a week's time, but the most urgent. Simply running the software's Web Update feature--which downloads the latest definition files--will not correct the problem.

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