# You Rule, Ad Aware **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 3, 2004, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-rule-ad-aware/253343 "2004-07-03T04:52:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2004, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-rule-ad-aware/253343/1 "2004-07-03T04:52:46Z")
Some of you may recall my previous thread: [Fuck You, Ad Aware](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=250823) Long story short: Ad-Aware seemingly hosed my Windows 95 machine. I was internet-less for 3 weeks while I backed up everything and upgraded to Windows XP. Painful. So now, I just noticed the exact same nastiness on my computer. I hadn’t bothered to install Ad Aware yet, so I gritted my teeth, installed it, and let 'er rip. 4 minutes later, problem all gone, computer all good. If I had any propensity for prose, I’d give Ad Aware a big sloppy word-kiss. As it is, this post will have to do. Kudos to all the wonderful people at Lavasoft. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2004, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-rule-ad-aware/253343/2 "2004-07-03T18:54:00Z")
AdAware and Spybot _both_ rule. My roomie used my brand-new computer and ended up with 6 million (only a slight exaggeration, it was a few thousand) pieces of spyware crap on it. AdAware and Spybot cleaned it out nicely, and I downloaded Spyware Blaster, which hopefully will keep it that way. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2004, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-rule-ad-aware/253343/3 "2004-07-03T21:32:17Z")
I want to include a special tongue kiss for whoever made both CWShredder and Hijack This!, both of which have pulled me out of fixes that Ad-Aware and SpyBot were unable to handle. God Bless you, noble spyware hunters!