Ad-Aware Web Companion PRO – Premium Web Security & Privacy Protection
Anti-Phishing Protection
We block websites trying to steal your personal information by impersonating sites you know and trust. Web Companion keeps your passwords, credit card and all other personal information safe from hackers.
Real-Time Web Protection
We block the latest viruses before most antivirus companies’ labs have had a chance to detect, analyze and publish a fix – making Ad-Aware Web Companion a precious complement of your overall security.
Multi Browser Compatible
Ad-Aware Web Companion’s technology behaves like a gate (proxy); making us compatible with all browsers right out of the gate. Rest assured that no personal information is ever tracked nor is your browsing history ever logged.
Fastest & Lightest Web Protection
Minimal impact on your computer performance. Only works where necessary. It’s so light you won’t even notice it.
A little app that makes the web alot better
With Ad-Aware Web Companion, staying protected doesn’t come at the expense of your system’s performance. We’ve engineered a program that uses so little of your PC’s power that you will never notice it’s there. Freeing your computer’s performance and memory to do the things you want to do!
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Reviews for Ad-Aware Web Companion PRO
Wonderful
Ad-Aware Web Companion is a lightweight antivirus tool that focuses on protecting you while you browse the web. This makes sense, as the internet is the greatest ingress point for any malware. We stand at the risk of phishing, downloading malicious payload or triggering malicious websites every time we browse the web. With some antivirus tailored to protect what is already on your hard disk, dealing with online malware could be tricky. Ad-Aware Web Companion seeks to bridge this gap at all costs.
Pros
A tiny installer
The tiny installer is rather wieldy. It takes no time to download and install the Ad-Aware Web Companion. The installer takes you through the quick set up that lets you choose a browser homepage and your default search engine. The default is Bing but you can always change them if you want.
Light on the Resources
The Web Companion is lightweight. You won’t notice any lag on your system’s performance as it will virtually run with your browser as a plugin. Combine this with its impressive quick scans with up to 99% success rate and you get an amazing real-time protection tool that will always shield you whenever you set foot online.
Anti-Phishing and protection works well
I found a list of malicious websites online with the intent of running the real time and anti-phishing protection. I had nothing to fear as I was running this on my test machine. Don’t intentionally infect your system. It could be catastrophic.
Ad-Aware captured all the phishing attempts from the infected websites and gave me a bold warning preventing me from navigating to the websites and giving out my valuable data. A test on its ability to protect infected download worked on 39 of the the 30 urls I tried. That, I’d say, is a good success rate.
Cons
Browser home page and search engine rather limited
Ad-Aware Web Companion has some search engine and home page flexibility – I’ll give credit to that. The only problem is the developers chose to support Yahoo and Yandex and left out Google which is definitely a stunner. Google is the most popular. It doesn’t make any sense to leave it out.
Verdict
Ad-Aware Web Companion is a good add on to run on top of your native virus. It will augment the antivirus’ reach and increase your protection to instant threats. It will help you secure the most common virus entry point.
NB If you love Google, don’t worry about the default browser homepage or search engine. You can always change these from your browser settings and continue enjoying Ad-Aware Web Companion while using your favorite search engine.
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