Ad-Aware Free Antivirus is one of the leading free antivirus tools on the market, with hundreds of millions of downloads, proving that the developers offer a good product that manages to keep a lot of computers safe. A massive face-lift has been brought to the tool, but the tool still follows the same guidelines that were imposed 13 years ago, when it was first launched. For a free tool, it offers quite a lot of functions and there are even more of them in the paid version, each being helpful.

Updates can be installed after the user gives his consent or this can be transformed in an automated process, in order to make things easier. A system scan can be performed whenever the user wants to, but this can also become an easier task if a person decides to create a timetable of scheduled scans which start whenever they are designed to. Constant scanning of the system is crucial in order to keep viruses away and besides this, Ad-Aware also provides more features that prove helpful in maintaining the overall security level of the computer at a high. Safe browsing is a mandatory feature that can prevent a user from accessing suspect websites.

Upgrading to the premium version is something that some users might want to do, but the free version still manages to do a lot of useful things and developers do not neglect the unpaid version of the tool. Parental control has been improved and now it can filter better than ever before malicious websites with harmful content. The feature can also be activated at certain hours of the day, using again the scheduling feature. The bundle offers a lot of performance and it does not clog up the system, unlike other tools of the same kind which cause constant slow-downs of the computer.