[the-facts-machine] Re: AdwCleaner Spyware Removal Tool
- From: Karen Carter <kcmm54@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "the-facts-machine@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <the-facts-machine@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 14:53:40 -0500
It helped mine too. Mine was running like a dinasore
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> On Dec 24, 2014, at 17:01, Steve <pipeguy920@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> No, I haven't noticed anything at all with it, Ron. It is free, comes highly
> recommended by a lot of anti-hijack and spyware removal sites. It only runs
> when you open it, it doesn't appear in any running processes afterward.
>
> I can't guarantee that it doesn't put something in the registry, but from
> what I can tell, this is the best piece of anti-malware I've ever used.
> It really got rid of crap on my wife's computer too that had been bothering
> her for three years, causing some folders to freeze and making downloads
> slower.
>
> Steve
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dr. Ronald E. Milliman]\\`
> To: the-facts-machine@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 4:48 PM
> Subject: [the-facts-machine] Re: AdwCleaner Spyware Removal Tool
>
> Steve, is this program, Adwcleaner, free? If so, from my experience, every
> free program ends up slipping in some other hitchhikers that puts stuff on
> my computer that I don't want. You are extremely sharp with this stuff; so,
> I suspect you have some way of preventing that from happening to you. Is
> this an issue with ADWCLEANER, and if it is, what did you do to prevent it?
>
> Ron, K8HSY
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: the-facts-machine-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:the-facts-machine-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve
> Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 1:42 PM
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> Subject: [the-facts-machine] AdwCleaner Spyware Removal Tool
>
> BlankHi,
>
> I thought I'd submit a post about an outstanding malware removal program
> that is extremely accessible. It is called Adwcleaner. I used version
> 4.106.
>
> I tried it about ten days ago on my computer and found a couple things. My
> wife had an issue with her computer freezing when doing downloads, and she
> used this program this morning and it corrected the issue.
>
> But, I have a client who had issues with several pieces of spyware such as
> global updater, groovorio, roboot, and many more that could not be nuked
> with MalwareBytes or a couple different anti-virus programs. This person
> had over sixty browser helper objects in Firefox, and these same programs
> that ran in Internet Explorer were listed in various places in the registry,
> under program foldrs and scheduled tasks. It identified over 155 different
> registry keys, and over thirty folders with malware.
>
> Adwcleaner opens with a simple screen layout. Under the actions menu, you
> first hit the Scan button. It will take a few minutes to scan.
>
> On the results screen, there are several tabs. These are tabs for each
> browser (firefox, Internet explorer, google chrome if you have it), plus
> tabs for files, folders, registry, scheduled tasks etc. Under each tab, you
> can tab into the list of items it has identified. If you don't want to
> clean an item, just uncheck it as you arrow down through the culprits.
>
> Once you've reviewed everything, go back to the actions area and hit the
> Clean button. It will warn you to make sure you've saved data from your
> other applications as it will close all programs. When it says it will
> close all programs--believe it! It means it! It closes everything,
> including your screen-reader.
> Suggestion: Make sure you have a shortcut installed so you can bring your
> screen reader back up about ten seconds after it closes.
>
> When you bring your screen reader up again, it will tell you it needs to
> reboot to finish the process.
>
> When it reboots, you will be in a notepad log file showing what it wwas able
> to remove. The log file will also be saved, along with the quarantine
> folder, under your root directory.
>
> You can download it at
>
> https://toolslib.net/downloads/finish/1/
>
>
> Steve
> Lansing, MI
>
>
>
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