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Hello,

Sorry for not speaking German..

We're working on this topic, thanks for the feedback :)

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,

We monitor related software, but their detection is on a case by case basis. Feel free to suggest new detections though ;)

Thanks!

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. ...

Hi!

This has been bothering me for a while. Adwcleaner has been deleting legitimate programs for quite some time now. But it got worse with the latest version. Now it will delete programs such as Auslogics disk defrag and Wise disk cleaner. THIS ARE 100% LEGITIMATE, CLEAN and useful programs. Yes they try to install some crap upon installation, but you can easily opt-out and end up with a C...

HI

Reimage is now has a new drivers updater programs and others craps software’s out there so not sure if adwcleaner detected them or not .

I’ll have you some of scanner names with a link for each of it .

norton power eraser https://security.symantec.com/nbrt/npe.aspx

9-lab - anti-malware http://9-lab.com/

and also your link show some they both anti-virus is now flagged the zhp cleaner tool