Ad-aware 6.0 spybot components

Thought that I was imaging it. But ran the scan again.
I am running the professional version of ad-aware 6.0.
- (ad-aware 158 pro). The reference file is or 123 25.02.2003 no updates are available.
Ad-aware lsited 353 spybot components as "data miners ".
Anyone else run into this ?

 

check the path to these detections...

they are all undoubtedly in the SpyBot recovery folder... all zipped, backed up SB detections.

try getting rid of the folder contents if you don't think you will be needing anything for recovery, and your Ad-aware hits will go away.

hth



mark

 

schamish--I do not think you have the most recent build of AA6. They are now up to build 162, and I see that running reffile updates without also updating the engine build can give false results. So get build 162 and run the scan again.
However, if you have never run Ad-Aware before, it is possible your first scan will show a lot of spyware. Many hits can be generated by only one piece of spyware.
Remember that removing spyware can often disable the freeware program that gave the spyware to you. (Kazaa is one of the best examples.) And it often is best to try to remove spyware using its own uninstaller (uninstaller.exe or unwise.exe in the spyware's folder), by looking for an uninstall procedure at the spyware's web site or through Control Panel|Add/Remove, rather than using Ad-Aware itself. If however, you do use AA, have your settings back up anything you delete so that you can restore if you do not like the results.

 

Sounds as if you have the "scan archives" option on under scan mode turned on, which will look in zipped archives, in this case perhaps the SSD backup files. That will give you the results your having.

Regards - Charles