But it raises a massive question mark about the wisdom of buying blind, a question which never arises in the freeware sector where if something doesn't work, there's no financial loss.Īs an ancillary to that, there's also the issue - with products of this specific nature - as to just how well the ordinary everyday consumer can actually evaluate them, because the level of knowledge required and the sheer scale of research expertise that must necessarily be applied is going to be far, far beyond their own individual skill-sets. The company's failure to submit to independent testing doesn't, of course, mean that the claims it makes for itself aren't true. but there's no sign of the LavaSoft product.
That's especially unfortunate right now, seeing as AV Labs has just put no less than 21 of these "security suites" under the microscope. Lavasoft's difficulty here - and it's an entirely self-imposed difficulty - is that having teamed its well-known anti-spyware product to others of more recent invention, it continues to decline to submit its work to independent laboratory testing:Īnd instead wishes you to believe what it says about itself. Two problems unfortunately crop up when suites of this type are bundled together: (1) just because one of the parts may be good, that doesn't necessarily mean that the sum of all parts will be and (2) imposition of a recurring annual license - which just about all developers in this sector have adopted, including Malwarebytes - means that prospective users need to be especially careful that they're getting the best protection possible because they're legitimately entitled to the best value for money possible.
Today's promotion, however, is far more than an offering of a tried and trusted single-purpose app rather, it's a compendium of different apps, brought together in what should, theoretically, be a persuasive tool-set. In that respect, AdAware certainly has it aplenty: it's been around for years, though as LavaSoft, its developer, would be the first to admit, the era when AdAware AntiSpyware justifiably dominated the freeware sector is now long gone.
Where antivirus/ malware "suites" are concerned, it's provenance, provenance, provenance. Where real estate is concerned, it's said that the three most important considerations a prospective purchaser should bear in mind are location, location, location.
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