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   Anonymous
   Unregistered

   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/11/lavasoft_has_new_owners/

   Anti-spyware company Lavasoft AB is now owned by a set of online entrepreneurs who have been linked with misleading websites.
   The Montreal-based entrepreneurs, who purchased the company's assets in January, have previously been accused of selling the free versions of Lavasoft products to unwitting internet users as recently as 2007 via cyber-squatting sites.
   Lavasoft, originally based in Sweden, was purchased by an investment fund called Solaria in January, The founders of this company have also founded companies that sold online porn, reskinned peer-to-peer filesharing software, and allegedly "skimmed" online sales, charging customers for software that they did not order.
   Bad boys done good?
   Dadoun and Assouline have a long history when it comes to internet marketing. They are also the men behind Interactive Brands, an affiliate marketing firm listed as the registrant of multiple domains linked to fraudulent activity, including spyware, and fake geneology sites. Interactive Brands was selling Lavasoft's Ad-Aware in 2007 using a variety of domains, including adaware-ib.com. This domain was listed in a Rip-off Report complaint by a customer who found the site in a web search, purchased Ad-Aware through it, and who said that he was charged for extra software that he did not ask for.
   Both of these domains are hosted at 63.243.188.110. Other domains hosted at this IP include error-doctors.com, which McAfee calls a high-risk, malicious site, due to marketing/merchandising practices.

   Posted 13 years ago #
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   copmom
   Member

   Thanks! Now I'm especially glad I removed that program from my computer! That aaw.exe is the culprit that caused my machine to take forever to run after a reboot and was very aggressive in controlling other things on here!

   Posted 13 years ago #
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   Anonymous
   Unregistered

   Thanks hotdoge3,

   I personally haven't used Lavasoft software for a year or two or more, as it seemed to have lost its effectiveness and was causing more problems than the worth of it. I would be even more suspicious now, given the new owners, who might just let more than a few dodgy sites of their own past Ad-Aware!

   Posted 13 years ago #
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   BuBBy
   Teh adnim

   I've looked at Adaware about once a year for perhaps the past 4 or 5 years (After purchasing a lifetime license maybe 10 years ago that Lavasoft dishonoured when they released a new version). I have always found their product to be slow, bloated and memory hungry.

   To be perfectly honest the features I wanted are implemented 100% better in AdMuncher - I now have a lifetime Premium AdMuncher license - and I would always now recommend that over AdAware without hesitation.

   Posted 13 years ago #
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   Michelle
   Member

   Lavasoft really went down. Remembering using adaware years ago and then they started bundling antivirus and even before that the scan times were slow.

   Posted 13 years ago #
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   copmom
   Member

   AdMuncher has really made big a difference since I installed it from the GOTD offer the other day. Now when I'm browsing, I really am amazed at all the things that used to pop up and now they don't .. this was a great offer!

   Posted 13 years ago #

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