Major difficulties with AdwCleaner v. 7.0.3.1

I am helping a friend clean a grossly infected computer. Windows 10. Uses McAfee AV.

He ran Malwarebytes 3 without difficulty and it cleaned with no problem at all. I do have the log if needed but cannot find a way to attach the text file

He then attempted to use AdwCleaner v. 7.0.3.1 but it would not complete cleaning and received a box with notification that a problem had stopped the clean....

Re: Problème erreur avec ADWCleaner

Bonjour,

Pouvez-vous partager le rapport d'analyse de AdwCleaner ?

Merci.


cocochepeau, 2017-09-22 16:56:49 (UTC)

Bonsoir, 

Je vous partage le rapport ........... ;)  Toujours le même problème au nettoyage.  

# AdwCleaner 7.0.2.1 - Logfile created on Fri Sep 22 18:52:08 2017 # Updated on 2017/29/08 by Malwarebytes  # Database: 09-20-2017.1 # Running on Windows 10 Enterprise Insider Previ...

Re: Can anyone help me identify if any of these deleted registry keys are essential

Greetings,

First of all, sorry for the late answer.

Can you share the scan logfile as well? Thanks.

Regards.


cocochepeau, 2017-09-19 06:55:31 (UTC)

# AdwCleaner 7.0.2.1 - Logfile created on Sun Sep 10 01:05:26 2017 # Updated on 2017/29/08 by Malwarebytes  # Database: 09-08-2017.1 # Running on Windows 7 Home Basic (X64) # Mode: scan # Support: https://www.malwarebytes.com/support

***** [...

Can anyone help me identify if any of these deleted registry keys are essential for windows?

# AdwCleaner 7.0.2.1 - Logfile created on Sun Sep 10 01:06:01 2017 # Updated on 2017/29/08 by Malwarebytes  # Running on Windows 7 Home Basic (X64) # Mode: clean # Support: https://www.malwarebytes.com/support

***** [ Services ] *****

No malicious services deleted.

***** [ Folders ] *****

Deleted: C:\Users\lenovo\AppData\Local\Bundled software uninstaller Deleted: C:\Users\lenovo\AppData\Ro...

Re: False positives?

Might as well post the log for the newest stable version.

# AdwCleaner 7.0.2.1 - Logfile created on Wed Sep 06 08:18:56 2017 # Updated on 2017/29/08 by Malwarebytes # Database: 09-01-2017.2 # Running on Windows 7 Home Premium (X86) # Mode: scan # Support: https://www.malwarebytes.com/support

***** [ Services ] *****

No malicious services found.

***** [ Folders ] *****

No malicious folders ...

Re: My First Post: Are These Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility Entries False Positives

I just installed version 7.0.2.1 which is newest release of Adwcleaner. I ran a scan and it came back clean. None of the previously detected Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility registry entries were detected by the scan...  Happy Days!!!

Thank you for fixing the problem...

 

Re: My First Post: Are These Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility Entries False Positives

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.

Re: version 5.016 ..... FP with Spyware blaster active x registry entries

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...

Re: My First Post: Are These Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility Entries False Positives

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...

Re: My First Post: Are These Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility Entries False Positives

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.