Howdy, I sent the author of bloody vikings your way a while back. I'm here today because two extensions I regularly use are being detected by adwcleaner.
1. "ClassicThemeRestorer" https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/classicthemerestorer/versions/ (I am using the developer/beta edition.)
2. "SavedPasswordEditor" https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/saved-password-editor/
...Brilliant. Can confirm Norton released adware from quarantine and icon appeared on my desktop this morning. Many thanks.
Can you find this adware on your Programs and Features? If you can see it there, you will be able to uninstall DNS Unlocker from your computer. And then you need to check if malicious browser extensions haven been added to your Chrome. You can get rid of it by following the removal guide in this post.
Hello,
It should be fixed :
Upon further analysis and investigation we have verified your submission and, as such, the detection(s) for the following file(s) will be removed from our products: 5E5AF17D82EC74646B33587B54F94D4A - adwcleaner_5.019.exe The updated detection(s) will be distributed in the next set of virus definitions, available via LiveUpdate or from our website at http://se...
Thanks for your comments prston - I am keen to use AdWare and am assuming this is a false positive but as I cannot get it past Norton I need to report that this is the case and hope the situation can be resolved with Norton so I can benefit from using it.
I used the current version of AdwCleaner today without issue. I run 3 layers of PAID active Anti-Virus protection: Emsisoft Anti-Virus, Malwarebytes Pro, and Hitman Pro.
In response to the false positive claim of AdwCleaner being a threat, I did a scan on the AdwCleaner.exe with all three AV programs. AdwCleaner came back CLEAN. Also, I have used it for years...and AdwCleaner catches the ...
Hello,
Signatures are automatically updated if the computer has an active network connection. Otherwise, AdwCleaner use the embedded database.
I hope that answers to your question ?
Regards,
andfr33tux, 2015-11-06 19:40:59 (UTC)
Problem is automatic, please activate to offline update signature and give imrpot file to adwcleaner it is important for people.
Do you think Comodo Cleaning ...
Hello,
(Susp) and "gen" indicates that these AV consider the submitted file as potentially suspect. We contacted Avast to discuss about this detection.
It should be soon removed.
Regards,
Version 5.016 and above are reporting as suspicuious the following activex registry entries created by Spyware blaster.
So Adwcleaner is removing the protection provided by Spyware blaster!
ie a few of the 170 keys found.
Key Found : HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility\{000F18F2-09EB-4A59-82B2-5AE4184C39C3}
Key Found : HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\...Hello,
Ok, so just to resume, you are posting here because you have adds pop-ups and AdwCleaner don't remove them ?
So can you post both AdwCleaner and MBAM logs ?
Download Master, PP et Victor Vran are legit software.
But Skill of Brains seems more controversial, and so, if you are having a problem of adds pop-up, this software might be theirs origin. In fact I recommand you to replace it ...