Wait, what?

[mouser.livejournal.com]

Ad-Aware (along with SpybotSD) has LONG been on the thumbdrive I carry *everywhere* for obvious reasons.

Yesterday, I went to run it and it failed to update. *damnit*

So I go to check the site. Hey new version! Cool!





The free version is ad supported now? Wait, what?



Correction

Comments

[alstaria.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha.....that's beautiful :)

[brotherflounder]

"Wait, what?" indeed!

Damnit, Lavasoft.

[bamatone.livejournal.com]

Is that what happened? I just figured the server was down. It would be nice if they managed some kind of notification through the update manager other than "update failed."

I went to download.com to get the latest defs file. I guess maybe that's out of date now. :P

[two-pi-r.livejournal.com]

Well, they just jumped the shark.

[torkell]

Wait, what?

I've had a quick look round the officla website ( http://www.safer-networking.org/ ), and there's no mention of any ads.

[jdotmi.livejournal.com]

Ad-Aware, not Spybot Search & Destroy.

[torkell]

Ah, misread your post.

[jdotmi.livejournal.com]

Not my post, but I'm sure mouser would have corrected the oops, too. I'm just busy slacking at work, so figured I'd post.

[wxgeek.livejournal.com]

urgh?

[mattcaron.livejournal.com]

The real questions are:
(1) Is it aware of its own ads?
(2) If so, does this make it ad self-aware?
(3) If so, does this make it self-aware?
(4) If so, does this make it a self-aware agent installed on millions of computers?
(5) Skynet? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_%28fictional%29) ()

[mathsnerd]

Haha, I love you for this. :)

[lilpeach.livejournal.com]

thank you for making my day. :)

[wxgeek.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHAHA.

[yanni85.livejournal.com]

Is it bad Karma to name my wireless network skynet?

[mattcaron.livejournal.com]

Mine is fnord..

[dukesnorre.livejournal.com]

What? I'm not sure I like where this thread is going ...

[mattcaron.livejournal.com]

You already know too much. Please accompany the Men in Black for memory wipe and faux memory implantation. I can arrange it so that you thought you were on vacation. Where would you like to have been for the past week?

;-)

[kizayaen.livejournal.com]

Please assume the correct Party Escort Submission Position or you will miss the party.

[major-error.livejournal.com]

The cake is a lie!

[jecook]

um, shouldn't it be "you are not cleared for that information. Please report to termination."?

[wignersfriend.livejournal.com]

The computer is your friend!

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Why not, mines called Tholian...

[mynameisnotreal.livejournal.com]

My computers (some of them) are currently named Bob, Dot, Enzo and Phong. Bob being the primary virus hunter, Dot is the front office machine, Enzo the laptop and Phong is my wizened old home machine.

[kirolee.livejournal.com]

I miss that show. :(

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

*grins*

As long as you don't run into a virus named Hexadecimal you're fine...

[mynameisnotreal.livejournal.com]

I always found Hex to be strangely arousing...

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Well, now that you mention is... I suspect thee & me weren't the only young[ish] lads at the time who were rather, taken, by her.

I blame the hip wiggle when she walked...[the animators must've had fun with that!]

[wignersfriend.livejournal.com]

Thanks to you, I am now fully knowledgable of far more instances of ontological paradoxes ocurring in pop-culture than I should know.

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

"..."

Run, run awayyyyy.....

[jamoche]

This really ought to be on metaquotes. May I?

[mattcaron.livejournal.com]

Knock yourself out.

[cirobi.livejournal.com]

i just passed that gem on to my coworkers. classic, absolutely classic. *headdesk*

[kenbrody.livejournal.com]

Huh? I have Ad-Aware 2007 free edition, and it just updated to 7.0.2.6 without any problems. I just checked the website and see no mention of "ad supported".

Where did you see that?

[mouser.livejournal.com]

Oddly only got an ad the first time.

Maybe I need better medication.

[tntoak.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, was the version on the OPs thumbdrive Ad-Aware 2007 or Ad-Aware SE? There are several differences between the two versions...

[mouser.livejournal.com]

Origionally Ad-Aware SE, but since they're no longer updating it (I think) I installed Ad-Aware 2007. The followup post (http://community.livejournal.com/techsupport/1636581.html) shows that I'm underimpressed.

[tntoak.livejournal.com]

I actually reverted back to SE because of issues with 2007. Unfortunately, Lavasoft seems to have ended all updates for SE as of January. I guess I'll have to find something else for my USB drive...