On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 0928 +1100, Steve wrote:

> Almost always happens to me. Gave up worrying about it eons ago. It seems
> Ad-Aware either downloads and loses the file or downloads and installs the
> file and reports the old version so downloads the file again on command (and
> again and again...). Either way, multipy this by the percentage of Ad-Aware
> users out there who face the problem and you come up with a huge waste of
> bandwidth. I have the problems pigeon-holed as bad programming. Ditto all
> the Spybot 'bad checksum' problems. Other programs seem to handle updates
> better.

My friend's given up worrying about it as well. She treats it as a
bit of a laugh now. She's pleased it's not only her that has the
problem and you're probably right that it's something to do with the
programming.