AdwCleaner won't DELETE files. PLEASE HELP!!

I need your help everyone. Please. I ran a program a few days ago and It caused me a few problems. I downloaded pretty much every antimalware or virus program and ran full scans. They all come empty. Even malware bytes. But when I run adwcleaner I get 258 threats detected. I click "clean" and restart my computer, and when I scan again, the SAME files are there! They are registry files that are ...

Re: False Positive?

Hello,

It will be released asap (at most two weeks), sorry for the delay in the release scheduled.

Re: s768.exe detection

Hello,

Thanks for the feedback!

Can you share the remaining folders containing the .xpi?

Best regards,


fr33tux, 2016-11-15 19:00:21 (UTC)

Hello, i copy here the log file. You can see the folders address. AdwCleaner say "deleted", but after the system restart, still remain in system. Anyway, i write and repeat here for whom read this post: AdwCleaner makes it's job, isolate and quarantine...

Re: AdwCleaner can't remove something

Yes I did it, and rescaning found the same files with internet connection. But my problem still same. After reboot I scaning with Adw, and found Key  HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Stats\{10921475-03CE-4E04-90CE-E2E7EF20C814}. Adw cleaner can't delete this file. Every scan I found that.

Re: Soucis avec adwcleaner

Greetings,

Here is what we're going to try:

  1. Download CCleaner from here, and install it.
  2. Start CCleaner (there should be a shortcut on your Desktop)
  3. Go in Options tab > Advanced, untick Only delete Windows temporary files older than 24 hours.
  4. Then in Options  tab > Surveillance, untick the both boxes.
  5. In the Clean tab, click on "Clean".
  6. When the cleaning is done, go in the "Registry" tab...

Re: ADWCleaner deleted a folder it shouldn't

Greetings,

@terryberi78 Nice to see that AdwCleaner is working great. :)

Regards.

Re: ADWCleaner deleted a folder it shouldn't

ADWCleaner deleted a folder saved on my desktop. As per suggestions on this thread, I ran the Quarantine Manager to restore the files. It worked. Files restored and my pc is much faster now after Ive deleted all those adware. 

Thank you for this product. 

 

Re: Can't delete UCguard

Hello,

Are you gonna help me with the remaining issue or are you done?

Re: IT SEEMS TO BE ADW CLEANER DETECTED WRONG REGISTRY KEYS

Hello,

Sorry for the delay, it's now fixed.

Best regards,

Re: IT SEEMS TO BE ADW CLEANER DETECTED WRONG REGISTRY KEYS

Hi

Yes, me... I deleted them after response of fr33tux

---> no any error anywhere after.... seems not to be "false positive" but really a Troyan adware