Addition to your protection, you can also add some form of Adblock to your security arsenal. uBlock does wonders blocking malicious pop-ups, and you will not get any scareware that might concern you in any way.
Addition to your protection, you can also add some form of Adblock to your security arsenal. uBlock does wonders blocking malicious pop-ups, and you will not get any scareware that might concern you in any way.
A quick bump up the post to get admins/mods here to confirm and double check my concerns. Also, the other thread hasn't been confirmed by admins/mods as well. We will see how it turns out, could be just another bug with Adwcleaner.
I'm running adwcleaner version 7.0.1.0 and this is an issue even now and has been in the last few versions of adwcleaner.
It started with the version where you changed the programs interface.
Most of the time Adwcleaner finds five internet explorer active x registry entries but sometimes it can be over a hundred and the next time it's back to five again even though I have not done anything th...
Thanks, I much appreciate the input... It would also be much appreciated if one of the administrators would chime in on this topic to verify that all the "ActiveX Compatibility" registry entries are truly FP's, and if so will there be an update to correct this.
In the thread, "False Positives V7" by, SWBUser, his log file also contains a long list of "ActiveX Compatibility" registry entries a...
ActiveX detections are usual FP's. Try doing an additional scan with Malwarebytes to confirm that. But I am fairly certain that these should not be detected. According to the internet and research that I did, ActiveX sets guidelines for processes, it can be exploited to some degree, but Adwcleaner would have removed them if found.
Herewith registry log:
***** [ Registry ] *****
PUP.Optional.SavepathDeals, [Key] - HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility\{F66C7EC4-63CC-4452-A8C9-5A2E898F8EFF} PUP.Optional.SavepathDeals, [Key] - HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility\{F8698E62-9284-432A-9C62-C1293A2B1DD3} Adware.BrowseFox, [Key] - HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\A...
# AdwCleaner 7.0.1.0 - Logfile created on Thu Aug 24 18:42:33 2017
# Updated on 2017/05/08 by Malwarebytes # Database: 08-22-2017.4 # Running on Windows 7 Professional (X64) # Mode: scan # Support: https://www.malwarebytes.com/support
***** [ Services ] *****
No malicious services found.
***** [ Folders ] *****
No malicious folders found.
***** [ Files ] *****
No malicious files found.
...Still that same single result...
***** [ Registry ] *****
PUP.Optional.Legacy, [Data] - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main | ImageStoreRandomFolder [mv9xu40]
Hello,
The beta version tells me: PUP.Optional.DriverBooster
snabbeltax, 2017-08-07 10:15:05 (UTC)
Can you share a logfile showing this?
fr33tux, 2017-08-23 00:30:14 (UTC)
# AdwCleaner 7.0.2.0 - Logfile created on Mon Aug 07 10:03:39 2017 # Updated on 2017/29/08 by Malwarebytes # Database: 08-06-2017.2 # Running on Windows 10 Pro (X64) # Mode: scan # Support: https://www.malwarebytes....
Hello. Sure.
# AdwCleaner 7.0.2.0 - Logfile created on Wed Aug 23 17:39:18 2017 # Updated on 2017/29/08 by Malwarebytes # Database: 08-22-2017.2 # Running on Windows 7 Ultimate (X64) # Mode: scan # Support: https://www.malwarebytes.com/support
***** [ Services ] *****
No malicious services found.
***** [ Folders ] *****
No malicious folders found.
***** [ Files ] *****
No malicious files...