AdwCleaner has stopped me from booting into safe mode

Hi,

I had some unwanted popups the other day and seemed to remove them.

As AdwCleaner is recommended for adware/pups, I thought I'd try it out to see if Malwarebytes found everything.

The scan itself was quick, but the removing part took longer, and when it got to the end it crashed (screen went wonky and discoloured, my disabled avira taskbar icon had a big red x through it) and restarted. ...

Re: AdwCleaner can't remove Program Files (x86)\MPC Cleaner

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Every day, Windows Defender is detecting at least one Trojan on my PC.

MBAM is reporting that a copy of Windows' shortcut to the Messenger app in my Startup folder is a Trojan.Agent threat.  While it is possible that the recent attack has infected this shortcut, MBAM doesn't report any threat when I rename the shortcut or scan a copy of the same shortcut in a different location.

Is this a bug...

Re: ITS NOT RESPONDING

This is my debug file: https://up2sha.re/file?f=nZHWFJLPJAfb

And this is my last scan file: https://up2sha.re/file?f=S2JGUxQFAUDG

When I click clean it not work and the AdwCleaner not responding. I wait 30 minutes but nothing happen. I can't restart, shutdown or open task manger. Please help

Not responding

This is my debug file: https://up2sha.re/file?f=nZHWFJLPJAfb

And this is my last scan file: https://up2sha.re/file?f=S2JGUxQFAUDG

When I click clean it not work and the AdwCleaner not responding. I wait 30 minutes but nothing happen. I can't restart, shutdown or open task manger. Please help

Re: ITS NOT RESPONDING

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it worked ! thanks man.but what is UCGuard ? should i clean it too ? it seems the one causing problem to my laptop

Re: AdwCleaner can't remove Program Files (x86)\MPC Cleaner

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Ah, minor problems remain.

Opera now works again as my default browser.  However, Opera could not see that it was the default browser until I used Windows: Control Panel: Default Programs to set it as the default.

Even then:

  • Neither Windows: Settings: System: Default apps: Web browser nor Windows: Settings: System: Default apps: Choose default applications by protocol: HTTP shows any of the ...

Freezing at cleanup

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Hi,

Adwcleaner found 39 threats and when it starts to clean, my system becomes unresponsive until I have to restart manually

here's the debug file

http://pastebin.com/1vM0mpDt

 

Thanks

You homies be messing up, but it's all good haha

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prefs.js line scanning It has been resetting my No-Script, false positive. Want more info, no problem. \m/

Startgo123 is not detected or removed by adwcleaner

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Hello,

This is my first post on this forum. I would like to apologize in advance for any missing information, formatting styles, etc.

I have always used Adwcleaner for malware and other viruses. This has always worked. Until now.

Whenever i open another tab in Google Chrome a "startgo123" page opens. I tried resolving my issue using Adwcleaner but it didn't work.

I don't know if i did somet...

Re: AdwCleaner 6.0.1 Registry Threats?

Ditto the above two registry entries for OpcMp4Player,

Are they false positives? they are part of Sony Sonic Stage on my PC, a legit program that I have installed.