User:Ceyockey/sandbox/Lavasoft

Lavasoft was founded in 1999, and has been described as "the original anti-spyware company", being the first company to deliver software to the general public to address spyware threats. It has had two business aims, first to product anti-malware products, and second to provide an education about malware to the general public, primarily via internal research and information hosted on or distributed from their corporate site.

In 2004, Lavasoft was brought to court by New.net with the claim that inclusion of New.net in its blocking database, thereby making users Ad-Aware anti-spyware software not subject to involuntary download of the New.net software, was injurious to New.net and actionable under state and federal law. The dismissal of this case set a precedent under which courts have subsequently "rejected attempts to obtain preliminary injunctive relief against internet speech."

As of 2009, Lavasoft's CEO was Jason King. The company's flag-ship product was Ad-Aware, also known as AdAware.

In 2010, the company entered the personal firewall market with Lavasoft Personal Firewall.

Ad-Aware Releases

 * version 5.83 was current as of March 2003
 * SE Personal Edition 1.06 was available in 2006
 * version 10 beta became available in May 2012