Hi, Karen. Welcome to LzD Forum!
As to knowing you have the latest updates -- I found the easiest thing to do is
"Subscribe to the Update Topics for your system software!". By subscribing to the updates as described in that linked topic, you will be notified not only about Ad-Aware updates, but also the other security software programs on your computer. If, however, you're only interested in staying up to date with Ad-Aware, you can subscribe to the update newsletter:
http://www.lavasoftnews.com/cgi-bin/mojo/mojo.cgi?f=s&l=rfnotify .
Except for the sites.txt file, yes, when you update the Definition Files for Ad-Aware, you are also updating Ad-Watch. The last time the sites.txt file was updated was February 11, 2005. It is not often updated but can be obtained from
http://www.lavasoft.de/support/download/Latest banned sitelist: Ad-Watch updated 11.02.2005
Please Note: By doing this update all changes to the banned sitelist is revoked.
Installation: Unzip the archive, replace the existing file and restart Ad-Watch..
As to your question with regard to the next version of Ad-Aware Plus, I really have no idea if a new build is planned or not. When Lavasoft closed the support forums last spring, the volunteers were also cut off from information of that nature. Actually, even if we had known, even though we were volunteers, we wouldn't have been able to say. New product information is confidential.
I hope that helps. If you have further questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
(BTW, I would be remiss if I didn't tell you that that as an Ad-Aware SE Plus subscriber, you are entitled to free email assistance from Lavasoft at
Customer Service or for technical support, you can use the technical support e-mail address:
generalsupport@lavasoft.de .)
