Suddenly AdwCleaner can't remove three services identified as threats

Can you help, admins? AdwCleaner has always removed any threat it finds. Today it failed repeatedly to remove these three services it identified as threats. CCleaner, SuperAntiSpyware, Norton, HitMan Pro and Glary all fail to detect anything wrong.

Is this an ADW false positive or if not, how do I remove & replace the services permanently if they are infected?  

In regedit the service keys ar...

Re: Whitelist Techware.exe

Thank You. :-)  I will test it on the next release.

Re: Whitelist Techware.exe

Greetings,

Thanks for letting us know. It should be enough to get it fixed in the next release of AdwCleaner (v6.010).

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Regards.

Whitelist Techware.exe

In the past versions of AdwCleaner Techware.exe was whitelisted.  But it seems that the new version (v6.0.0.0) does not have it whitelisted.

 

Techware is a computer maintenance software we created that performs regularly scheduled maintenance on a PC. For instance defragging, Updates, Malware removal, computer components testing and so on.  It logs everything into the user's account on Techw...

Re: ADW False postiive registry reporting

If you need a file name or so

hpswp_bho.dll. I did a websearch and saw a filename associated with that CLSID as well

found it on

https://forums.techguy.org/threads/my-windows-7-64-bit-desktop-is-infected-with-malware.1088456/

line:

EB: HP Smart Web Printing: {555D4D79-4BD2-4094-A395-CFC534424A05} - C:\Program Files (x86)\Hp\Digital Imaging\Smart Web Printing\hpswp_bho.dll

Again, it's legi...

Re: Help...What is this?

# AdwCleaner v5.201 - Logfile created 30/07/2016 at 06:02:03 # Updated 30/06/2016 by ToolsLib # Database : 2016-07-21.2 [Local] # Operating system : Windows 7 Ultimate Service Pack 1 (X64) # Username : CQ62 - CQ62-PC # Running from : C:\Users\CQ62\Downloads\adwcleaner_5.201.exe # Option : Scan # Support : https://toolslib.net/forum

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Re: Help...What is this?

#2 

# AdwCleaner v5.201 - Logfile created 24/07/2016 at 03:15:42 # Updated 30/06/2016 by ToolsLib # Database : 2016-07-21.2 [Server] # Operating system : Windows 7 Ultimate Service Pack 1 (X64) # Username : CQ62 - CQ62-PC # Running from : C:\Users\CQ62\Downloads\adwcleaner_5.201.exe # Option : Clean # Support : https://toolslib.net/forum

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Re: Help...What is this?

my hronology of logs...

THE FIRST

 

# AdwCleaner v5.201 - Logfile created 24/07/2016 at 03:06:45 # Updated 30/06/2016 by ToolsLib # Database : 2016-07-21.2 [Server] # Operating system : Windows 7 Ultimate Service Pack 1 (X64) # Username : CQ62 - CQ62-PC # Running from : C:\Users\CQ62\Downloads\adwcleaner_5.201.exe # Option : Scan # Support : https://toolslib.net/forum

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Re: Wow Adware really works and it did clean up my PC wonderfully!

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on AdwCleaner by ****

Sir,

1st of all thax a loat for such a great tool. It helped me a loat in removing may adwares from systems. 2 -3 days back i was downloading somthing and hit with some malwares and adwares. after that i scanned pc with adaware removel tool but after clicking clean it was getting stucked again and again in notrmal mode and safe mood. then i scanned my pc with malwarebyt it cleand most of thing...