I earlier wrote about the Lavasoft new Antivirus software called Helix. Lavasoft is an excellent security software solution which provides high quality protection for all individual computer users and business networks all around the world from compromising and intrusive privacy threats.

Lavasoft have just released their Ad-Aware Anniversary Edition of Free, Plus and Pro version with more new and improved notable features and changes.

Ad-Aware Anniversary Edition is significantly lighter and faster than all the previous verison of Lavasoft security software. It

• Uses 74% less memory than Ad-Aware 2008.
• Only uses 18% of the CPU during scans – nearly 60% less resources than the previous version, and considerably less than each competitor product tested, including AVG, Kaspersky, Norton, and PC Tools.
• Scans 36 MB per second – faster than each competitor product tested, and over 4 times faster than AVG’s.

For your satisfaction, you can also check out the very impressive performance and cleanup comparison of Lavasoft vs all the top anti-virus and anti-spyware products available today.

For those of you who are already using a valid Ad-Aware plus or Pro license can update the new version totally free of charge through Lavasoft support center. Simply follow these steps and you're good to go

1. Log-in to the Support Center and download Ad-Aware Anniversary Edition from the download link option in the “Your Licenses” menu.
2. Start the installation. The previous version (Ad-Aware 2008) will be automatically uninstalled before installing Ad-Aware Anniversary Edition.
3. Ad-Aware Anniversary Edition will recognize your previous license information and the Plus or Pro features will be activated automatically when the program is started.

Ad-Aware Anniversary Edition provides comprehensive malware protection without loading down your system’s resources, bringing you the core competence you need to stay safe online.