Hello Xplode,
The ADWCleaner utility is removing my filtering extension for my antivirus (Webroot).
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{C9C42510-9B41-42c1-9DCD-7282A2D07C61}
Thank you,
Kirby
Possible solution on win xp sp3. Rename Adwcleaner_5.021.exe to Adwcleaner.exe. This may also work on versions 18 and up. It may have to do with Avira safe search interfering with it. Once I removed Avira safe search from registry (IE browser entries) using adwcleaner.exe it would then run adwcleaner_5.021.exe.
Hope this works for you. May be worth trying on other OS versions.
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I just downloaded and attempted to run the current version...but AdWare fails to run and crashes before opening.
Here is what happens:
1. Open File window opens after clicking on the .exe file.
2. Clicking Run on Open File window results in a window opening with an error message.
3. The error message simply states AdWare Cleaner encountered an unknown problem, etc. The error window offers a Debug button. I simply closed it out.
4. I ran version 4.2xx. It opened and worked fine.
NEXT ISSUE: v4.2xx identified about 11 registry keys as a threat. After manually locating each registry key, all registry key were associated with variations of "Download.SwInstaller" and "NCTAudioFile2.DLL". Extensive Google searching didn't uncover any meaningful info about the nature of those two 'things'. So, I didn't let Adware delete them. DO YOU KNOW WHY ADWARE PEGGED THOSE REGISTRY KEYS AS THREATS?
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AdwCleaner really works! I've got rid of some recently appearing very annoying popups in Sea Monkey/
All these keys are related to codecs (AC3Filter and DirectVobSub), so I think this is a false positive detection.
Key Found : HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{363F46BE-27B4-4C8D-99E7-B1E049B84376}
Key Found : HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{525F116F-04AD-40A2-AE2F-A0C4E1AFEF98}
Key Found : HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{90A9B7D2-3794-45EA-9E23-140E3938D2D9}
Key Found : HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{9852A670-F845-491B-9BE6-EBD841B8A613}
Key Found : HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{A753A1EC-973E-4718-AF8E-A3F554D45C44}
Key Found : HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{ACE4747B-35BD-4E97-9DD7-1D4245B0695C}
Key Found : HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{CE77C59C-CFD2-429F-868C-8B04D23F94CA}
Key Found : HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{F544E0F5-CA3C-47EA-A64D-35FCF1602396}
Key Found : HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{02AFA80F-4BEE-41FD-8572-214B58A9EF90}
Bonjour,
La clé HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility\{9522B3FB-7A2B-4646-8AF6-36E7F593073C} semble être une vaccination Spybot et devrait être ignorée, cordialement.
Curious and frustrated that ONLY HitmanPro finds registry remnants of the YahooToolbar, CouponBar, and Default Tab !
Of the YahooToobar 11 different registery remnants were found and of the Default Tab 5 were found.
AdwCleaner, Spybot, etc could not find these registry keys
Version 4.206 after the start of scanning stops with an error in the journal 0xc0000005.
DEP enabled for all services and applications.
Windows 7 х86.
- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
<Provider Name="Application Error" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>100</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-06-07T14:21:34.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>474369</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>OLEGOS-PC</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data>adwcleaner_4.206.exe</Data>
<Data>4.2.0.6</Data>
<Data>556b7f98</Data>
<Data>unknown</Data>
<Data>0.0.0.0</Data>
<Data>00000000</Data>
<Data>c0000005</Data>
<Data>06ef79be</Data>
<Data>106c</Data>
<Data>01d0a12d3b6dc79a</Data>
<Data>C:\Users\OLEGOS\Desktop\adwcleaner_4.206.exe</Data>
<Data>unknown</Data>
<Data>7f775a2d-0d20-11e5-bd97-8c89a56f25d1</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
First of all: I Love AdwCleaner. It only deletes the following keys that are used for Exact Globe (See: http://www.exact.nl/ ) HKCU\Software\eXact, HKLM\SOFTWARE\eXact, HKU\.DEFAULT\Software\eXact, HKCY64\Software\eXact. When these are deleted i cannot use the program. After an ''recheck of all files'' it works again.
