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FYI - Ad Aware Scan Problem
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Name: Double D
Date: November 10, 2006 at 02:25:18 Pacific
Subject: FYI - Ad Aware Scan ProblemOS: XP HomeCPU/Ram: P4 |
Comment: Ad Aware is incorrectly identifying Callwave Internet Answering Machine (IAM) application program as a trojan. I know this because I removed components of IAM after it was identified as a critical object. I never get these, so I had a feeling something was wrong. Sure enough, after rebooting, my IAM did not run, so I had to reinstall. A subsequent Ad Aware scan showed the same trojan dialer. FYI
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Response Number 1
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Name: Derek
Date: November 10, 2006 at 13:42:32 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)With all of these type programs false positives sometime occur. It would be worth reporting it to Ad-Aware, they probably have a forum. DerekW
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Response Number 3
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Name: smithkarl
Date: November 22, 2006 at 01:51:51 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Hi, If the software Ad Aware find bad objects, you can ignore the ones you definetly know they are not spyware/adware. I scan, then check out the spyware it finds, and only select those that I know are spyware. Karl
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