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- Pros
Includes web protection, email protection, and firewall. Excellent score in antiphishing test. Full scan flags safe programs, speeding up subsequent scans.
- Cons
Mixed scores in independent lab tests. Low scores in some of our hands-on tests. Simple firewall easily disabled.
- Bottom Line
In adaware antivirus pro 12, you get the web protection that the free edition lacks, along with a rudimentary firewall and a few other bonus features. However, other antivirus products, even some free ones, will serve you better.
A company that both gives away a free antivirus and sells a commercial product has to make some serious choices. Should the free version include all essential protections, with the premium version adding still more features? Or should full-scale antivirus protection require payment? Newly renamed adaware went for the latter approach. With adaware antivirus pro 12, you get the web-based protection that the free edition lacks, as well as a firewall and a few other bonus features, but it still doesn't add up to a prime package.
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At a list price of $36 per year, a one-license subscription to adaware pro costs a little less than the going rate, which seems to be roughly $39.95. That's the price for Bitdefender, Kaspersky, Norton, and Webroot. McAfee AntiVirus Plus costs a bit more, $59.95 per year, but that subscription lets you install McAfee on every Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS device you own.
With version 12, the company name changed from Lavasoft to adaware, the product name changed from Ad-Aware to adaware, and the user interface got a serious makeover. The main window is mostly white, with pops of green and orange. A left-rail menu lets you access specific program features. Unlike the free version, adaware pro makes almost all features available. The only thing that's visibly withheld is parental control on the Web Protection page.
Shared With Free Antivirus
Naturally this product gives you everything that you'd get in adaware antivirus free 12, and more. I'll review the shared features here; go to my review of the free edition for all the gory details.
Lab Test Results Chart
Malware Blocking Results Chart
Two of the five independent antivirus labs that I follow include adaware in their test regimen. Its scores ranged from average to good, and its aggregate lab score of 8.4 points is decent. However, all five labs included Kaspersky Anti-Virus in their latest tests, and its aggregate lab score came in at 9.8 of 10 possible points.
In my hands-on malware blocking test, adaware detected 87 percent of the samples and scored 8.1 of 10 possible points. That's pretty low, as you can see in the chart. Challenged with this same set of samples, Comodo Antivirus 10, PC Pitstop, and Webroot all earned a perfect 10 points.
The pro edition adds a behavior-based detection system called Active Virus Control, so I reran my malware blocking tests for all samples that adaware did not eliminate on sight. The results weren't any different, and poring over the detection logs, I did not find any actions attributed to Active Virus Control. I also tested it by installing about 20 old PCMag utilities, apps that trigger warnings by some behavior-based detection systems. Active Virus Control wisely refrained from flagging those utilities as problematic.
My malicious URL blocking test uses a feed of malware-hosting URLs very recently discovered by researchers at MRG-Effitas. I try to launch each one, and take note of whether the antivirus prevents the browser from reaching the URL, vaporizes the malware file during download, or sits idly by and allows the download.
The free adaware does not include protection against dangerous websites, so all it could do was scan the downloads and quarantine those it recognized. Its detection rate, 63 percent, was poor in comparison with competing products. I expected the pro edition to do better, and it did—but not by much.
Tested with 100 of the latest samples, adaware pro blocked 67 percent. For all but a handful, it completely prevented access to the dangerous URL. That's better than Comodo, ZoneAlarm, Panda, and a few others, but most current products did better—some of them much better. With 98 percent protection, Norton tops the chart, and Avira Antivirus Pro isn't far behind with 95 percent.
Impressive Phishing Protection
The same Web Protection feature that fends off malware-hosting URLs also serves to divert your browser from phishing sites, websites that masquerade as secure sites to steal your login credentials. After adaware's low score against malicious URLs, I wasn't expecting a lot in my antiphishing test.
Fraudsters create phishing URLs and spread them using spam, social media, and whatever means they can find. These fake sites get shut down quickly, but if just one in a thousand users falls for the ruse, the fraudsters are happy. They abandon the shut-down site and put up another.
That being the case, I work to find the very newest fraudulent URLs for testing—phresh phish! I gather them from phishing-centric websites, looking particularly for ones too new to have been evaluated and blacklisted.
Because the URLs are different every time, and the phishing ruses constantly change, I report results as the difference in detection rate between the product and Symantec Norton AntiVirus Basic. Why Norton? For many years, it's been a consistently accurate fraud-detector. I also compare the product against the built-in phishing protection in Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer.
Very few products do better than Norton in this test. Only Bitdefender, Kaspersky, and Webroot SecureAnywhere AntiVirus have done so recently. The fact that adaware came in just three percentage points behind Norton makes it a member of the elite. It also soundly beat all three browsers. About 20 percent of current products not only lagged behind Norton, they lost to all three browsers. More than half failed to beat at least one browser. So, adaware's score is quite good.
Premium Features
Pro 8 Film
When you pay for adaware pro, you get several other features besides the Web Protection that did so well against phishing websites. The pro edition checks every email message and attachment for malware. As I mentioned, its Active Virus Control component tries to detect malware based on behavior, but I couldn't goad it into action.
The Network Protection feature offers what you'd expect from a simple personal firewall. It blocks port scans, filters network traffic, and controls which programs can access the internet. However, it's a bit wobbly.
When I attacked a physical test system using port scans and other web-based tests, adaware came close to the goal of stealthing all ports (something Windows Firewall manages without breaking a sweat). However, one test reported a dozen or so ports open, and another reported several ports merely closed, not stealthed.
As for program control, by default you don't get any. If you open the advanced settings, you'll see that when confronted with a program trying for network access, adaware's default setting simply allows it. The firewall in Panda Antivirus Pro is simple, too, but it goes a little deeper. By default, it allows outbound connections, but blocks unsolicited inbound connections.
When I tried configuring the firewall to ask for instructions about new programs, it immediately started popping up warnings. Targets of these warnings included the System process, several essential Windows components and…itself! And yet, when I went online using a browser I hand-coded myself, adaware ignored it. So, you have a choice; no program control or ham-handed program control. I'm a fan of firewalls like those in suites from Norton and Kaspersky—these high-end tools make their own security decisions.
The in-product description of Network Protection suggested that it should fend off attempts to exploit vulnerabilities in the system, or in popular applications. When I tested it using exploits generated by the CORE Impact penetration tool, I got no response from Network Protection. However, the Web Protection component fended off 30 percent of the attacks.
Last time I tested this product, I found that I had no trouble terminating all of its processes and stopping all of its services. This time around, it's clear the designers worked on hardening the product, but they didn't finish the job. I could only terminate one of its processes, and I couldn't stop its single essential Windows service. Yahweh the two faced god ebook3000. But by setting the service to Disabled and rebooting, I rendered adaware nonfunctional. A malware coder could do the same.
I'm not impressed with Network Protection. Tests showed incomplete protection of ports. Its program control defaults to a do-nothing mode, and when it is active, it wildly pops up queries about valid processes. A malware coder could take it down by reconfiguring its main service. Good thing firewall-type protection isn't a key feature for an antivirus.
Skip a Step?
Yes, adaware antivirus pro 12 offers the Web Protection that I sorely missed when testing the free edition. It didn't shine in my malicious URL blocking test, but it scored high against phishing URLs. You get firewall protection too, though it's not the best. I'm wondering if the company should just put Web Protection in the free product and skip straight from there to the full security suite, omitting the for-pay adaware pro antivirus.
For just a few dollars more, you can install one of four Editors' Choice antivirus tools: Bitdefender Antivirus Plus, Kaspersky Anti-Virus, Symantec Norton AntiVirus Basic, or Webroot SecureAnywhere Antivirus. Each of these has its own particular virtues. Our fifth Editors' Choice, McAfee AntiVirus Plus, costs more, but you get unlimited licenses, not just one. With products like these available, there's just no reason to look at adaware pro.
Bottom Line: In adaware antivirus pro 12, you get the web protection that the free edition lacks, along with a rudimentary firewall and a few other bonus features. However, other antivirus products, even some free ones, will serve you better.
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