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Re: [security] Unusual Activity in Ad-aware 6 Personal, Build 6.181
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shawn McMahon)
Wed Jun 23 23:14:45 2004
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 12:45:15 -0400
From: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@eiv.com>
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Message-ID: <20040622164515.GA11586@eiv.com>
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On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 10:36:16AM -0400, fedhead said:
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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 explo=
it
> and Ad-aware so it could be something unique to my system but at this poi=
nt
> 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=3DST&f=3D42&t=3D14501&st=3D0#e=
ntry115743
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