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hi I'm Seth Rosenblatt for cnet and today we're taking a first look at at aware 10 ad-aware used to be a great name in Windows computer security and then just didn't go anywhere for a long time now it's back it's got a completely new look the new interface for ad-aware looks a lot like its competitors and that's a good thing unlike its old UI which was sort of complicated in cumbersome is very hard to navigate the new one is actually very simple the layout is clean and because it's easier to understand it's actually easier to use cnet labs system performance benchmarks show that ad-aware 10 actually has a slightly lighter than average impact on your computer's performance than its competitors which is a very good thing the AV engine the antivirus engine is provided by GFI Viper which is a well-renowned security suite it's a good one it's not the best out there but for providing into virus in a situation where otherwise they would have to build their own engine this is actually a good thing that it has it and it will help keep you secure unfortunately because there haven't been any into virus benchmarks performed on adaware 10 we're not really quite sure how secure it will keep you we know it will help you it's better than not having anything but until those benchmarks come out in a few months it's still an open question it is recommended if you trust ad-aware go ahead keep using it but for right now it's more about the fact that ad-aware 10 is in a position to compete for the first time in a really long time where for years it was sort of dying off and that was really unfortunate for the first look at ad-aware 10-4 cnet i'm seth rosenblatt you