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Unusual Activity in Ad-aware 6 Personal, Build 6.181 Jun 20 2004 02:36PM fedhead (fedhead rogers com) (4 replies) Re: Unusual Activity in Ad-aware 6 Personal, Build 6.181 Jun 22 2004 07:01AM Steve Ryan (sirsteve internetcds com) Re: Unusual Activity in Ad-aware 6 Personal, Build 6.181 Jun 22 2004 03:49AM Russell J. Wood (rjw open-cpp net) |
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> My apologise if I am posting in the wrong list but I am not sure if this is
> a known issue in Ad-aware or if this even is an issue with Ad-aware.
It's normal operation of Ad-aware.
> Seems benign enough. Every night when it runs, after the first scan of the
> registry, it creates four files in the C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Ad-Aware
> 6\cache folder which Norton AV catches as trojan scripts:
Every day, you get infected again. Every day, Ad-Aware finds it.
Sounds like you've got an issue with Norton AV, not with Ad-Aware.
> The most unusual part is that it happens at the end of the registry scan in
> Ad-aware. A google search doesn't turn up any relation between this exploit
> and Ad-aware so it could be something unique to my system but at this point
> I am at a loss as to what it could be.
Try "ad-aware cache" for your Google search next time.
http://www.lavasoftsupport.com/index.php?act=ST&f=42&t=14501&st=0#entry1
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