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Abyss
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I used to use this programme a few years ago, and decided to give it a go again.
I scanned, it found 2 trojans and a few bits of ad-ware.
I deleted them, they came back, and back, and back - I wiped my HDD and tried a new scan and it found
adware.win32.adon!A"
Trojan.atraps!IK
trace.directory.IamBigBrother!A2
(Bearing in mind this was a complete wipe of the HDD and a complete reinstall of my OS-xp-)
No other scanner found these- Avast- MBAM - SUPERanti-spyware- Spybot S&D Ad-Aware. (All free versions)
Now is it A-squared that is wrong/creating false positives or are the other programmes all missing these threats?
I'm stumped, any thoughts to help me clear this up would be appreciated.
Thank's
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bricat
HijackThis Helper
Reg'd: Wed
Posts: 31982
Loc: belfast
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I stopped using A-squared years ago because of the amount of false positives.
i would ignore them, if MBAM - SUPERanti-spyware- Spybot S&D Ad-Aware aren't finding them, they aren't there.
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Abyss
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Reg'd: Tue
Posts: 364
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Thank's Bricat, yet again you have helped me- 
I shall once again be a happy surfer.
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bricat
HijackThis Helper
Reg'd: Wed
Posts: 31982
Loc: belfast
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Happy to help.
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IF I HAVE SAVED YOU MONEY, PLEASE CONSIDER GIVING A DONATION TO HELP IN MY FIGHT AGAINST MALWARE.
When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to look like a nail.
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Madeline
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Reg'd: Wed
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Loc: Gallifrey
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You're right bricat. I still use a-squared Free sometimes as a scanner, but because of their large number of false positives I use Jotti quite a lot too!
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"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Lord Acton, 1887.
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