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Registry Modifications
Name: TM Date: January 11, 2005 at 15:06:40 Pacific OS: Windows 98 se CPU/Ram: 800
Comment:
Hello. I have Ad-aware 6 professional so I have Ad-watch as well. I have Ad-watch running and according to it, it's detecting a registry modification every second. It's up to 7682 registry modifications now and still going. I don't think this is normal. I only have 54% system resources free. What's going on here with the registry modifications? Thanks.
Name: JOE Date: January 11, 2005 at 16:18:55 Pacific
Reply:
TM,
"It sounds like you have an infection"......
I would recommend that you scan your pc with your Antivirus,but before the scan,update your Antivirus,and reboot your pc by tapping the F8 upon startup and select SAFEMODE from the menu.....
If you dont have an Antivirus?i would recommend you scan your pc with housecall from here... Housecall If your still having problems after the scans?then post back for further help.
Take care!
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Response Number 2
Name: TM Date: January 11, 2005 at 16:31:53 Pacific
Reply:
Zonealarm antivirus did not detect any virus and I updated the latest virus definitions. The registry modifications have stopped but Ad-watch did log quite a bit of registry modifications.
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