Today I stumbled upon this detection whilst using Adwcleaner 7.0.1.0:
***** [ Registry ] *****
PUP.Optional.YahooChrome, [Key] - HKLM\SOFTWARE\Yahoo\SS
Afterwards I scanned with other virusscanners (Malwarebytes, MBAR, and Roguekiller) and none of them detected aforementioned registery key. Thus, it seems like a false positive generated by adwcleaner.
Can someone confirm this?
Kind regard...
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...
Yesterday the Windows 10 machine from my wife was scanned by 7.0.1.0 and referred Zylom games and TryMedia as suspicious. Removal of it all led to no gaming anymore because these files (and dirs) are apearently necessary to run and check validation of the Zylom Games. Such a shame because a noob does not understand that.
# AdwCleaner 7.0.1.0 - Logfile created on Mon Aug 21 19:08:44 2017 # Up...
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....
I did the same with my second machine with WIN 8.1. The same problem, the same error message. Atgtached pls find the content of the debug log file.
2017-08-01 13:14:15.535 DEBUG [9084] [MainUI::buttonScanClicked@294] [i] Scan button clicked (-31986) 2017-08-01 13:14:15.538 DEBUG [8304] [MainUI::Entry@1271] [+] Checking for update... 2017-08-01 13:14:16.040 DEBUG [8304] [AdwCleanerSDK::checkCA...
yes, chrome browser.
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 ?
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?
Looks like safe with nw did the trick. Same two elements were identified, but this time the removal process included a step "cleaning chrome", which definitely wasn't in any of the other scans. When I restarted in regular mode and ran another scan with v7, there were "no unwanted objects found". Super psyched!!
Below are two log files -- first is the one generated after removal of two unwanted...
