Malwarebytes Acquires AdwCleaner

bumboola said:

Can you post a log file from AdwCleaner? That will tell you (and us) exactly what it is.

I had a very similar experience a couple of days ago dealing with 2 PUP files that AdwCleaner was unable to remove. If the log file shows it as a registry entry it's very easy to remove. In my case going into the registry and deleting the files from dom (similar to cookies) storage did the trick and AdwCleaner now runs clean again.

This is only positive entry:

***** [ Firefox URLs ] *****

PUP.Optional.Legacy api.bing.com

Since then, I had to restore to earlier (2 days old) MR backup because of a problem with Skippy update so now it's clean.

If it comes back you can always try the 7.3 beta at TOOLSLIB Mike: AdwCleaner - Files - Downloads - AdwCleaner - ToolsLib

v7.3 [13/03/2019]
New Features
Redesign Generic detections from scratch to allow more flexibility and FP-control,
Enhance Winlogon changes detection

Changes
Definitions 2019.03.27.1
Sort logfile output by family name and paths
Update HSTS policy for network connections
Improved debug logging

Bugfixes
Empty exclusions are no longer valid
Update generic detections
Update OpenSSL

eLPuSHeR said:

That's nice. So it seems it was a FP after all.

Must be but I hate when I can't find a cause.

jimbo45 said:

Hi folks

@CountMike
This is always the best way -- simply restore to a cleaner version of your system -- for even quite modest hardware backup / restore is fast and much more reliable than any amount of Virus etc cleaning -- especially if you start by using an infected computer to start with.

It's a bit like being a Pilot and told your plane is defective but you will have to repair it while in the air and not on the ground. - I like flying but any sensible Pilot would presumably want to leave that plane on the ground until fixed !!!!

Have to ask what sorts of sites are all you guys visiting if you get all this malware -- I've even visited places like the one flying the skull and cross bones, some sport streaming places and a few "unofficial" film places from central Europe - one not far from CountMike !!! and never had a smidgen of malware / viruses etc -- and I'm only using Windows Defender.

Cheers
jimbo

Last time I had some real malware was when I connected someone else's HDD that he got from a flea market. Normally when I have to connect something like that I do it while booted to live Linux, check it out and do safe erase on it. This one time I didn't and all hell broke loose. Timely offline backup saved the day.

Version 7.3 finale officially out today.