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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 , first thanks!

"AdwCleaner\Quarantine\FS

AdwCleaner\Quarantine\REG
AdwCleaner\Quarantine\Quarantine.info "

i really do not have these file in my c\adwcleaner quarantine folder

WHY..??...

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...

The latest version 7 options changes are not sticking. Wth Win 7 the tools/options window which opens does not have an Okay or reset button and any changes made dont even stick for the immediate scan ie the delete tracing keys and reset the Winsock cannot be changed even though the ticks can be removed as soon as the options window is closed and then reopended the ticks are back. Then Win 10 to...

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,

1) so which is the correct shape of the c\adwcleaner\quarantine folder for v7?

AdwCleaner\Quarantine\FS
AdwCleaner\Quarantine\REG
AdwCleaner\Quarantine\Quarantine.info

2)having dl the latest v7 i expected to have all its folders in the correct way...

You have, and it's not the issue here. Both v6 and v7 can run on the same machine.

3)in the past yr tool let us CHOOSE if an ele...

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,