After clicking “Ad-Watch” on the Ad-Aware 2007 main menu, launch the program by clicking “Start”.

The Ad-Watch module will open, displaying the main menu screen.

Ad-Watch is the real-time monitor featured in both Ad-Aware 2007 Plus and Ad-Aware 2007 Pro. The scanner in Ad-Aware 2007 detects and cleans malware from your system, but Ad-Watch goes a step further. From the moment your machine is turned on, Ad-Watch is watching, actually catching these programs before they integrate and install on your PC. If malware or parasites are detected, an Ad-Watch notification window will appear in the notification area of your taskbar, giving you the choice to allow or block that particular process or registry change or addition.

Ad-Watch allows you to lock the start-up sections of your registry, block possible and actual browser hijack attempts, block suspicious processes, lock executable file associations, and block malicious cookies.

Because Ad-Watch uses the same Definitions File as Ad-Aware, it is important to get updates regularly from Lavasoft’s Detection Database.

Ad-Watch has been re-designed and now features four different protection tools: RegShield, Processes, Connect, and TrackSweep. Similar to the Ad-Aware 2007 interface, Ad-Watch also has a “Settings” screen where you can make specific changes to the actions that Ad-Watch performs.