This is an old favorite anti pop up ad and anti virus program. It appeared on the scene back when spybots amd popup ads were first invented. It was, and still is free. Yesterday, suffering from excessive popup ads in Firefox, I though to try it again. I'd already run Malwarebytes, Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool, and Spybot Search and Destroy with no hits. So I downloaded a free version of AdAware and turned it loose. Seems to have worked, it claimed to have found a couple of things, and the pesky popups seem to have gone away.
Downside. AdAware is deeply into real time virus scanners. It installed three add-ons into Firefox, and three more "start at boot time" programs. The drain on CPU cycles was bad. But, trusty old Startup Manager turned off the "start at boot time" CPU hogs and Firefox's Add-on manager turned of the Adaware add-ons.
I love Windows. :-)
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