I find many legitimate items flagged by AdwCleaner. Blindly clicking on Clean (now Cleaning???) is asking for trouble.
Hola, Hotspot Shield, YTD YouTube Downloader, AVG LinkScanner, etc. are not adware. They should not be deleted by AdwCleaner.
False positives (it's a legitimate VPN extension):
C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Hola
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Google\Chrome\Extensions\ncffjdbbodifgldkcbhmiiljfcbgjag
If I remember correctly there's also a false positive for the Hola Unblocker Firefox add-on. However, the Firefox add-on stopped working for me - possibly due to AdwCleaner cleaning away files needed for it to work - and re-installing it doesn't help, so I can't submit a report for that add-on. The add-on can be installed from here if anyone wants to have a look at it: http://hola.org/
The following entries are false positives:
C:\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\ProgSense (included with some software to look for updates - nothing malicious or deceiving)
C:\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\Simple Adblock (adblocker now known as Adblock Plus knowingly installed by user for Internet Explorer)
C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Application Data\Hola (knowingly installed by user)
HKCU\Software\ProgSense (included with some software to look for updates - nothing malicious or deceiving)
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{459DD0F7-0D55-D3DC-67BC-E6BE37E9D762} (belongs to ZoomBrowser EX, a Canon camera utility)
The following are proxy settings knowingly added by user:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings [ProxyEnable] - 1
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings [ProxyOverride] - *.local
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings [ProxyServer] - socks=localhost:1234
Thanks in advance for correcting the issue.
Merci pour ce logiciel miracle. Il a déjà débloqué des situations désespérées chez des personnes (amis, famille) que j'ai dépannées.
Une question: la dernière version (adwcleaner_4.110) signale "Everything", logiciel de recherche hyper-efficace et absolument indispensable que j'utilise en permanence depuis longtemps, comme élément à supprimer.
Pourquoi donc ?
Sorry,correct link for New Tab Homepage :
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new-tab-homepage/?src=ss
False Positives :
Everything
http://www.voidtools.com/
New Tab Homepage
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new-tab-homepage/?src=ss
bonjour juste pour signalé que je ne peux pas téléchargé la version v4.110 avast le bloque donc impossible pour moi de m'en servir
plus qu'a attendre la nouvelle :(
bonjour meme avec la version 4.110 il y a toujours un faux positif pour le logiciel IDM (Internet Download Manager http://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/download.html ) si on supprime les clé de registre affichés cela demande ensuite de reinstaller IDM et on a toujours ce faux positif Rapport pour IDM:
Clé Trouvée : HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Settings\{0055C089-8582-441B-A0BF-17B458C2A3A8}
Clé Trouvée : HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Stats\{0055C089-8582-441B-A0BF-17B458C2A3A8}
Clé Trouvée : HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{0055C089-8582-441B-A0BF-17B458C2A3A8}
Clé Trouvée : HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{0055C089-8582-441B-A0BF-17B458C2A3A8}
Clé Trouvée : [x64] HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{0055C089-8582-441B-A0BF-17B458C2A3A8}
Clé Trouvée : [x64] HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{0055C089-8582-441B-A0BF-17B458C2A3A8}
egalement faux positif pour les logiciel Lastpass https://lastpass.com/misc_download2.php et faux positif pour le logiciel Driver Genius http://www.driver-soft.com/
please read "with starting the scan" as "without starting the scan"! In the mean time I tried to do System Restore but that made the computer with even more problems, so I have to roll back to the state left by AdwCleaner.
@cocochepeau Hi, As, after AdwCleaner requested to restart the computer after scan and clean, I was not able to log in anymore into the standard account from where I ran AdwCleaner, Therefore I didn't get the report, but I guess it should still be somewhere on my computer. I ran again AdwCleaner but with starting the scan, just to see if it sees the report, but the Report button is grayed out. I downloaded several versions of AdwCleaner, so I may not ran the same version. I don't know if that matters. On the other hand, if I press uninstall (without actually starting the uninstall) I see the files from the quarantine, but not the changes made to the registry. For the files you may take a look at: http://1drv.ms/16uCsum
