Lavasoft creates another ground breaking version of their famous spyware removal tool, the Ad-Aware Anniversary Edition 8.0. This free application (also has a paid upgrade) was added in CNet’s download list last January 18, 2009 and as of today, it has already been downloaded 324,324,751 times. Well, add one to that because I just downloaded a copy a few minutes ago. Ad-Aware Anniversary Edition is compatible with Windows XP, 2000 and Vista.

Ad-Aware Anniversary Edition provides advanced threat detection. It is also faster and lighter as compared to the previous versions. Other improvements include: Ad-Watch Live! integrated real-time protection, Customizable Profile Scans and the Behavior-based heuristical detection.

Ad-Aware Anniversary Edition has a refined interface which makes it the most user-friendly Ad-Aware version as of today.