The ad-aware.exe is also known as the Ad-Aware SE Core application or Ad-aware. It belongs to the software Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE and it is owned by the Lavasoft Sweden. There is minimal information gathered about this process. The process is not a Windows core file. The process can be removed using the Control Panel’s Add/Remove programs applet. It is capable of monitoring applications, recording inputs, connect to the Internet and manipulate other programs. The process has no visible window. The process contains a security rating of 17% dangerous making it relatively safe for the users to run according to the users; it is generally better if the user operates this process under cautious conditions within his or her computer system; in order to pacify any possible dangers to the user’s computer system, the user needs to be aware of the possibilities that this process may contain some possible harmful materials, such as spyware, virus, worm, and any other potential dangers (which makes this process vulnerable to virus writers) that needs to be aware of, as well performing specific measures which can be done whenever this program is being operate in order to guarantee the security for the user’s computer system. It may be advisable to keep this program running and not disable it as disabling it might cause the computer system to behave in an unpredictable manner.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. ad-aware.exe. is used by Ad-Aware SE Core, If you shut down ad-aware.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop ad-aware.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is Ad-Aware SE Core, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed ad-aware.exe

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Ad-Aware SE Core, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if ad-aware.exe. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that ad-aware.exe, belongs to, in this case Ad-Aware SE Core