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Vista and Ad-aware 2007

Discussion in 'Security and Privacy' started by broni, 2007/09/27.

  1. 2007/09/27
    broni

    broni Moderator Malware Analyst Thread Starter

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    As some of you may be aware, Ad-aware 2007 implement "aawservice ", which starts with Windows, and eats up a good chunk of resources.
    This, I don't like, and I tried to do something about it. This is what I did.
    In "services.msc ", I stopped "aawservice ", and I set it to "Manual ".
    After that, when you try to run Ad-aware, it gives you an error. A solution was simple. I right clicked "Ad-aware2007.exe ", and under "Properties>Compatibility ", I put a checkmark next to "Run As Administrator ".
    Now Ad-aware will run either by double clicking "Ad-aware2007.exe ", or from its shorcut.
    The problem is, after running Ad-aware, "aawservice" will stay running until next reboot. I'd like to have it stopped after I'm done with Ad-aware.
    In Win 2K, I had a simple batch file:
    @ECHO OFF
    Ad-Aware2007.exe
    sc stop aawservice
    @echo Done

    which I used to run Ad-aware. When I was done with Ad-aware, the above batch file would stop "aawservice ".
    However in Vista, it seems to impossible to set ".bat" file to be run as Administrator.
    So, when I try to run the above batch file, command prompt window opens for a second, executing batch file, but Ad-aware won't open.
    Any idea, what I'm doing wrong here?
     
  2. 2007/09/27
    broni

    broni Moderator Malware Analyst Thread Starter

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    Problem solved!
    I changed batch file a little:
    "C:\Program Files\Ad-Aware 2007\Ad-Aware2007.exe "
    net stop "aawservice "

    Actually the above change is non-esential.

    What IS esential, I right clicked on the above file, and then I clicked "Run As Administrator ".
    Ad-aware opened correctly, and what is most important, "aawservice" stopped upon exiting Ad-Aware.
    The point is, if you run the above file normally, net stop "aawservice " command won't be executed.

    Then, as a cosmetic move, I right clicked on my batch file, then Properties>Shortcut>Run, and I set it to "minimized ", so it doesn't open on my computer screen.
    Secondly, I clicked on "Change Icon ", navigated to "Ad-Aware2007.exe ", and changed my batch file icon to Ad-aware icon.

    Cute, huh?....LOL
     

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  4. 2007/09/28
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    Hi, broni. :)
    Lavasoft recently released an Ad-Aware upgrade that is supposed to address this issue. See this linked thread by TeMerc for details.

    If you're running Ad-ware 2007 Pro anyway, you can upgrade via the "Web Update" feature in Ad-Aware 2007 Pro. I do not know whether a similar "Web Update" feature exists in the "Plus" and "Free" versions or not.
     
  5. 2007/09/28
    broni

    broni Moderator Malware Analyst Thread Starter

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    All I can see in that thread is:

    The service uses less resources when not scanning.

    which doesn't satisfy me, since I see absolutely no reason for some application to run a service on my computer, while I'm not using that program.
    This is about my general rule:
    I want on my computer only something what I picked up to be there.
     

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