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\ActiveX Compatibility\{04F3C4CF-8DCD-4D80-92B5-6A016E316869}

Key Found : HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility\{07202B0D-149C-4568-90DF-ACC2B4057809}

Key Found : HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility\{0722A2AC-4CF8-4310-AFEE-F87AA9BE10AA}

Key Found : HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility\{100EB1FD-D03E-47FD-81F3-EE91287F9465}

Key Found : HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility\{103089DA-0F31-4A8B-843F-7D24A7FE8345}

Key Found : HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility\{11F09AFE-75AD-4E52-AB43-E09E9351CE17}

Key Found : HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility\{13B58989-8D66-4F69-922F-B608C38397C1}

I allowed Adwcleaner to remove the Acitve x compatibility entries and when I opened Spyware Blaster it reported that Internet explorer did not have protection enabled for exactly the same Active X as removed by Adwcleaner. 

To check I re-enabled the protection with Spyware Blaster and ran Adwcleaner again and once again it  found the same keys just created by Spyware Blaster.

So it appears that versions 5.016 of Adwcleaner and above are reporting activex registry entries created by Spyware blaster. 

I assume these are false postives?

 

These keys were not reported by versions 5.015 and earlier.

Re: version 5.016 ..... FP with Spyware blaster active x registry entries

Hello,

Thanks for your information. This will be fixed in v5.019.

Regards,

Re: version 5.016 ..... FP with Spyware blaster active x registry entries

I'm running adwcleaner version 7.0.1.0 and this is an issue even now and has been in the last few versions of adwcleaner.

It started with the version where you changed the programs interface.

Most of the time Adwcleaner finds five internet explorer active x registry entries but sometimes it can be over a hundred and the next time it's back to five again even though I have not done anything that would be the reason for that. I never ever even use internet explorer.

I have never experienced this before regardless of what version of adwcleaner I've been running.

Re: version 5.016 ..... FP with Spyware blaster active x registry entries

ActiveX is used for Microsoft services. I am fairly certain that this is a false positive. There have been a number of threads about the ActiveX issue, still waiting for confirmation from representatives.

Re: version 5.016 ..... FP with Spyware blaster active x registry entries

It seems that everything works just fine in this new version.  Thank you! 

Re: version 5.016 ..... FP with Spyware blaster active x registry entries

Good to know it works! I'm closing this thread then.

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