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Hello,

It was not detected at the time of the release, so I guess there was an issue with Avira definitions.

It seems fixed though.

Thanks!

Hi,

I've just installed the new Avira Antivirus Pro v15.0.24.146 (virus definition 8.12.141.148)

It's detecting a bad thing: DR/Autoit.haroo into the 6.041 AdwCleaner file (consequently sent in quarantine).

Are you aware?

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HiSpeed, 2016-12-16 16:07:05 (UTC)

This "problem" is not up to AdwCleaner...

The problem is that Avira detects Adwcleaner wrongly as Malware. This is a false positive ...

Hi,

I've just installed the new Avira Antivirus Pro v15.0.24.146 (virus definition 8.12.141.148)

It's detecting a bad thing: DR/Autoit.haroo into the 6.041 AdwCleaner file (consequently sent in quarantine).

Are you aware?

Bonjour,

Mercredi, j'ai voulu télécharger Pixlr, un logiciel d'édition d'images qui me semblait simple mais complet. J'ai donc rempli les conditions et téléchargé le logiciel, mais celui-ci m'a installé des centaines de fichiers donc je ne comprenais pas l'utilité. 

J'ai tout de même lancé le programme qui était bien différent de ce que j'avais pu entrevoir, ce qui m'a déplu. 

J'ai donc déci...

Hello,

Please share the whole scan logfile usually located in C:\AdwCleaner\AdwCleaner[Sxx].txt.

Thanks,

This is getting worse and serious!!!!

Today I was scanning a computer that had a folder clled "ppt" on the desktop, which contained a lot of the user's powerpoint files and adwcleaner wanted to delete it!!!!! Fortunately I catched it on time!

WHY ON EARTH would adwcleaner delete user's files???????

Hallo schweriner,

wurde Chromium ungewollt/unbewusst auf deinem Computer installiert?

Weiß du evtl. mit welchem anderen Programm es mit installiert wurde?

Benötigst du Hilfe bei der Entfernung?

@ cocochepeau

During the last weeks, I noticed some users that were infected with different PUPs or Adware and Chromium was installed silently, unwanted and automatically on those computers as...

Hello,

You can read more about our criterias here. Also, feel free to fill a complain at the same adress if you think the detection is abusive.

Best regards,

Auslogics disk defrag and wise disk cleaner ARE NOT PUPs!!!!!!

They are 100% LEGITIMATE utilites! and VERY USEFUL, I might add. They may install additional software, but that can be easily unchecked during installation. SOMEONE PLEASE FIX THIS!!!!!!!

Hi,

Now it will delete programs such as Auslogics disk defrag and Wise disk cleaner. THIS ARE 100% LEGITIMATE, CLEAN and useful programs.

AdwCleaner is part of MBAM-family and thus gets tougher on PUPs:

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/malwarebytes-news/2016/10/malwarebytes-gets-tougher-on-pups/

https://www.malwarebytes.com/pup/

I've seen such programs bundled with other software itself. ...