Re: Win10PESE startup

It all depends on the rig. HDD's are not known to be the fastest at boot times, especially if the system is Windows XP, quite a legacy system right now. Not really sure. If you PC specs are good, then you shouldn't have such long boot times, unless your HDD's are really slow. Did you notice anything else during the boot? Is your WinXP iso image clean? If you got it from a third party, I wouldn'...

Re: False positives?

Since PUP is a potentially unwanted software, it might not be an infection, just some rogue application running or installed on your PC. Do a thorough scan with Malwarebytes and see if it helps to deal with the issue. Also, you can try searching for the folder manually, as the path is listed and remove it that way. If you have issues, kill the process with the task manager and then remove it. 

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

Glad the issues have been sorted out. For future reference, I recommend installing some form of Adblock, as not only that prevents malicious ad pop-ups but also some malicious websites as well. Additionally, you can check any link before clicking it using Virus Total or Scanurl. Good luck!

Re: Version 7.0.2.0 beta stops when scanning

Did you remove previous versions of the software from your PC and are you sure you are using the latest version? Make sure you are running only one instance of anti-malware software.

Re: AdwCleaner stops working!

Glad to see everything is working again. 7.0.2 seems to be a lot more stable than other versions, hopefully, this continues. Also, you could upload your pictures to a free image upload site and paste the links here :)

Re: AdwCleaner stops working!

Hi, I had the same problem, it would do a scan and then when I would clean it would stop right away and say Caught and some other things can't think of offhand but it would not let me x it out and would have to minimize it and then right click to close window.  That was from the time it went from 7.0.0 to the 7.0.1.  I know it changes after a few weeks or so so I have been checking every few da...

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...

FPs ?

Are these reg keys FPs ?

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

PUP.Optional.Legacy, [Key] - HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility\{B9507101-E464-4B3B-A4CB-291AAEDD94F2} PUP.Optional.Legacy, [Key] - HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility\{2316C625-B487-4410-A1A5-FF040B65245F} PUP.Optional.Legacy, [Key] - HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX Co...

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

Thank you so much for your help. just another thing, this guy who's commenting here and posted a malicious link, should i worry about that ?