NoAdware Review

Reviewed by: Mary Mills

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Software reviewed: NoAdware V5.0

Overview - NoAdware is a well established solution for blocking, detecting and removing, adware, spyware and many other threats. NoAdware has also been the dominant player of its category on the largest digital market place Clickbank, with over 47 million downloads. The purpose of our review was to concentrate on the latest version of the software NoAdware V5.0 (NoAdware5).

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Out tests focused on both the protection and removal of adware and spyware, including  threats such as Trojan, Dialers, and Web Bug traces. Our conclusions are based upon our independent tests, which covered blocking, detecting and removing these threats. 

We set challenging test conditions - We installed NoAdware V5.0 on computers, with the following features which are representative of many computers today: The computers were already equipped with anti-virus software. The computers had run for about one year, and from a software standpoint had several software installed which were initially downloaded from the internet . This included software which are known to use harmless adware (e.g. Babylon), and to make the test more challenging we also used systems infected with a particular Trojan causing sudden system restore and replicating itself across the registry. The Trojan in question could not be removed by our antivirus software (the anti-virus software had been kept up to date had been developed by a leading brand which claimed to offer Trojan protection).

NoAdware V5.0 offers excellent protection - NoAdware V5.0 blocking functions present themselves as a series of "shields", which from a user perspective can easily be enabled or disabled by ticking or unticking any of the configuration boxes. The ActiveX shield (shown) is particularly well designed in that it offers protection for 586 types of undesirable threats and does not require user intervention (other less advanced software require users to allow or disallow ActiveX downloads including undesirable ones, which increases the risk of infection).

Another well designed feature of NoAdware V5.0 is the cookie protection feature, which enables users to reject cookies by default, and accept them from trusted source by exception. This matters because many reputtable website also rely on cookies to deliver the right user experience (i.e. most interactive websites today), so users can continue to enjoy the same online experience with the added piece of mind that NoAdware V5.0 brings.

Finally from a protection standpoint we liked the fact that NoAware V5.0 can actually prevent undesirable URLs to be planted in the users favorites list. This is an important feature particularly for families who want to keep control of the websites, which younger users may be visiting.

NoAdware V5.0 removal function is one of the fastest and most effective -The full scan only took 10 minutes on average, and unlike other software, NoAdware V5.0 successfully detected and removed the Trojan which we had planted on our test computers.

We particularly liked the fact that each threat is assessed by the software according to its severity. So for instance tracking cookies are mostly deemed not critical whereas the Trojan we planted was recognised as serious. This is important in our view as it puts the users in control and enable them to make informed decisions on whether or not to remove any items detected by the software.

NoAdware V5.0 offers excellent value - The trial version is free and a single user licence only costs $47.

Conclusion - NoAdware V5.0 passed our tests with flying colours - and is the continuing proof that the heavy investments that NoAdware.net are making in continuously developing and adapting their software to respond to new threats keep on paying off.

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