Ad-Aware SE Personal edition 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.

We recommend running Ad-Aware at least once each week and immediately after downloading any files from the Internet. The following is the easiest way to get started but once you are confident with the program you can configure it to your liking. Click the “Help” button for more information at any time.

Before you scan your computer with Ad-Aware SE you should run Web Update, to make sure that you have the latest definition file. To start WebUpdate click the “WebUpdate” button in the toolbar or use the "Check for updates now" link on the Status screen. Make sure that you are already connected to the Internet and Click "Connect" to check if a new definition file is available. If a new file is available click "OK" to download it. (The file will automatically be stored to the correct location on your computer.)

Now you are ready to perform a scan. Click the "Scan now" button in the main menu on the left side of the main status screen or use the "Start" button in lower right corner. This will open the Preparing System Scan screen. Select "Perform Full System scan", deselect “Search for negligible risk entries” and click "Next" to start the scan.

After the scan is completed you will be presented with a detailed listing of the items that were detected. 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.

Click the "Next" button on the Scan Complete screen to view the Scanning Results. Select the objects you want to remove by selecting their tick-box in the scan results lists or to select them all, right click inside one of the tick-boxes and click “Select All”.
(If you do not want to delete all the items from the critical objects list, please click “help” for more information).

Click "Next" (not Quarantine) and then "OK" in the pop-up window to confirm the removal.

Click the red/white cross in the top right hand corner to close the program.

If you do not have Ad-Aware on your PC and would like to download it for free, click the Download.com icon at the top of the page. Or if you would like to purchase the more advanced versions of the program point your browser at www.lavasoft.de.