By the way, IIR, Ad-Aware is owned by a company called ‘Lavasoft’. I used to have that (actually a paid subscription) but it ran out and they never even emailed me to solicit renewal or acknowledged me as a customer. This was a couple of years ago. It was odd, and made me suspicious of what kind of company it is. So I forgot about it.
Lavasoft more or less died, being that they got no attention from Norman I think. Far as I remember, the updates just stopped.
When Norman showed itself to be both incompetent, on turbo bigotry and more or less criminal, I went to Malwarebytes for a while, but that is sort of like a properly done Ad-Aware.
But have been running Avast for a year or two, very effective against everything (and I go some very hairy places), unobtrusive and totally trouble free. The company also seems remarkably clean, in a business sector that is basically a thieves market - for example, when Norman got a new CEO in from Symantec a few months back, my first impression was The Beagle Boys hiring a Gambino.