NoAdware appears to be telling porkies...

[G0AOZ]

Windows 98SE, Norton 2003 and Spybot, all up-to-date. Norton doesn't report any occurances of previous trojans, worms or viruses, and Spybot doesn't find anything significant. Internet connection through an ADSL modem/router with known good firmware firewall. Hard disk scanned on another known good system. No problems found.

So why does NoAdware (v3.0) continually tell me there's a worm (W32.Lovgate.AD@mm) in the machine? The registry key quoted (HKEY_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current_Version\Windows: run) has nothing showing against it, and a scan of the registry fails to show up anything associated with it. And why "Windows NT" when this is and always has been a Windows 98 machine?

Had exactly the same problem about 2 months ago, but a different worm (can't remember which one now) - that bogus entry seemed to disappeared of its own accord after about a week.

This software won't allow the user to clean up any of the items found, despite the fact that money was paid for this programme in the first place. This almost sounds like one big con to me, unless someone can convince me otherwise...

All very odd - anyone any clues?


ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[stuuked]

goto microsoft.com and download the free spyware scanner its free for now and it is by far the best scanner/remover out there.

 

[bygeek]

The MS Antispyware won't run on win98. Only 2000 or later.

 

[G0AOZ]

So has anyone else attempted to use this NoAdware software...? What were your findings?

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[stuuked]

ohhh yea, what about ad-aware.com, thats a good one, nope never used noadware

 

[torturedmind]

could be that noadware is finding an entry in spybot's detection library. (just a thought...)

hope this helps. peace!

kilroy
philippines

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