It's another first for Ad-Aware Free Antivirus - a full-blown (no compromise) virtual technology built right inside even our free antivirus. This emulation technology helps protect users from many unidentified or new variants of malware.

Ad-Aware's anti-malware technology rapidly analyzes potential cyber threats by observing their behavior in a virtual environment, meaning that the malware is never actually executed on a user's machine. It's all done in the background and doesn't need any user intervention.

Because Ad-Aware uses Dynamic Translation, the fastest emulation technique available, it is extremely fast and never compromises system performance, despite virtualizing potentially malicious programs.