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The results of last scan:

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PUP.Adware.Heuristic, At1

PUP.Adware.Heuristic, At1

What exactly does this mean, and is this a real threat? (because the updated interface is too confusing for me). Thank you in advance.

last one second before now scan:

# AdwCleaner 7.0.0.0 - Logfile created on Sat Jul 22 13:52:03 2017 # Updated on 2017/17/07 by Malwarebytes # Running on Windows 10 Home (X64) # Mode: clean # Support: https://www.malwarebytes.com/support

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No malicious services deleted.

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Deleted: C:\Users\Luca\AppData\Roaming\.acestream

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Hello,

As you can see in the logfile, the database is not up-to-date:

# Database: 07-16-2017.1

So it means that AdwCleaner was not able to retrieve the latest database version online. That's why fr33tux is asking about the proxy.

Firstly, make sure you cleaned up your Adware fully, otherwise, the problem might still persist. Newest updated of AdwCleaner shouldn't have this issue. Try doing a full reinstall of the software and see if that helps!

I have no proxies on either machine.

Just updated and ran scan - still same result as yesterday as below - 280 entires found!

The Chrome entries found are simply my personalisations for the Chrome start up page! Should definately not be selected or cleaned!

# AdwCleaner 7.0.0.0 - Logfile created on Fri Jul 21 08:26:44 2017 # Updated on 2017/17/07 by Malwarebytes # Database: 07-16-2017.1 # Ru...

Thanks. It was with the Chrome browser ?

Thanks for the feedback. The first time browser reset to duck was after identifying and removing 2 unwanted objectes (PUP.LEGACY.OPTIONAL). The second time it happened, however, was after the next safe mode scan in which no unwanted objects were detected. 

Hello,

It's not a browser hijack, it's the search-engine setting that AdwCleaner set after removing a malicious one. This will be back to google.com by default, with a dropdown in the Options UI to choose between seevral search engines.

Just to be sure, you say that Duckduckgo has been set even if you didn't get any Chrome or Firefox detections?

Agreed. One strange result after running AdwClnr v7 safe mode scan -- first time used search engine noticed it had been switched to duckduckgo -- figured it's a browser hijack of some sort so chgd search engine setting bk to google and removed duck from list.

I then searched for add ons and related software and found none. Ran v7 safe mode scan again next day. No unwanted objects found, but ag...

Hello,

A screenshot for the record:

JoshRoss: You're right and it's a bit tricky to correctly handle, but we'll try for the next release.

Best regards,