Did AdwCleaner Remove Required Registry Files?

In hopes of making my two computers as safe as can be I went ahead and removed the various files that AdwCleaner detected in a scan. However, because I had issues with my computer's hardrive becoming corrupt recently, I'm worried that some of the registry files that were deleted might in fact be necessary ones. Can someone please let me know if this is the case? I've posted the content of the l...

Adwcleaner freezes during removal of viruses.

Got 2 viruses and the AdwCleaner freezes  @20% during removal. Microsoft Security Essential and Malwarebytes does not detect these viruses.

No1: PUP.Optional.YahooChrome.     Registry[HKLM] SOFTWARE\Yahoo\SS

No2: PUP.Adware.Heuristic                C:\programData\{D19C2D22-6043-47E7-B400-83A351841204}

Haw, can I remove it?

Re: Adware 7.0.2.0 Beta 3 Still crashing Win 7

Hi,

Same problem as before. And Can't get to the debug log. Program continues to shut down at heuristics. Here are the details again. I hope this is helpful.

 Problem Event Name:    BEX   Application Name:    adwcleaner_7.0.2.0 (2).exe   Application Version:    7.0.2.0   Application Timestamp:    599f69b1   Fault Module Name:    StackHash_0358   Fault Module Version:    0.0.0.0   Fault Module...

Re: False Positives V7

Herewith registry log:

***** [ Registry ] *****

PUP.Optional.SavepathDeals, [Key] - HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility\{F66C7EC4-63CC-4452-A8C9-5A2E898F8EFF} PUP.Optional.SavepathDeals, [Key] - HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility\{F8698E62-9284-432A-9C62-C1293A2B1DD3} Adware.BrowseFox, [Key] - HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\A...

My First Post: Are These Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility Entries False Positives

# AdwCleaner 7.0.1.0 - Logfile created on Thu Aug 24 18:42:33 2017

# Updated on 2017/05/08 by Malwarebytes # Database: 08-22-2017.4 # Running on Windows 7 Professional (X64) # Mode: scan # Support: https://www.malwarebytes.com/support

***** [ Services ] *****

No malicious services found.

***** [ Folders ] *****

No malicious folders found.

***** [ Files ] *****

No malicious files found.

...

Adware 7.0.2.0 Beta 3 Still crashing Win 7

After download & install, I checked debug. Upon launch, a message said this was outdated version, and asked if I wanted a newer version. I said OK. Still crashed.

Thank I returned and downloaded the "updated" version, which was the same, but this time said no to a newer version. It will not go beyond heuristics analysis. Here's the error message.

Problem signature:   Problem Event Name:    BE...

Re: More false positives

Yesterday the Windows 10 machine from my wife was scanned by 7.0.1.0 and referred Zylom games and TryMedia as suspicious. Removal of it all led to no gaming anymore because these files (and dirs) are apearently necessary to run and check validation of the Zylom Games. Such a shame because a noob does not understand that.  

# AdwCleaner 7.0.1.0 - Logfile created on Mon Aug 21 19:08:44 2017 # Up...

Re: More false positives

Hello,

The beta version tells me: PUP.Optional.DriverBooster


snabbeltax, 2017-08-07 10:15:05 (UTC)

Can you share a logfile showing this?


fr33tux, 2017-08-23 00:30:14 (UTC)

# AdwCleaner 7.0.2.0 - Logfile created on Mon Aug 07 10:03:39 2017 # Updated on 2017/29/08 by Malwarebytes  # Database: 08-06-2017.2 # Running on Windows 10 Pro (X64) # Mode: scan # Support: https://www.malwarebytes....

Re: False positives?

Here's the log... I still get that one PUP.Optional.Legacy result, dammit.

So it's really an infection after all?

# AdwCleaner 7.0.2.0 - Logfile created on Sun Aug 13 19:14:04 2017 # Updated on 2017/29/08 by Malwarebytes # Database: 08-11-2017.1 # Running on Windows 7 Home Premium (X86) # Mode: scan # Support: https://www.malwarebytes.com/support

***** [ Services ] *****

No malicious servic...

Re: Adware and i don't know what to do

Hello,

Can you please paste the scan logfile from AdwCleaner?

Thanks.


cocochepeau, 2017-08-10 09:35:33 (UTC)

the beta version ?