Pass this on to anyone who is using Ad-aware 6
I am reliably informed the the Last update for this version is about to be issued, and you should upgrade to Ad-aware SE ASAP!
This is posted on the Lavasoft/Adaware forum

Err, I aready upgraded to the SE a few days ago. Do I need to do it again for whatever this is they're issuing?

Jusork
You needn't do anything
Its a reminder to those who are on the older program to upgrade to SE. Otherwise in a few weeks the nasties will be creeping back on

Ps There will be the Post that will come up somewhere soon moaning that They have Ada-ware and they cannot update!

Or a post coming up that says they had Ad-Aware SE and it totally corrupted their system

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Originally posted by Georgia85:
Or a post coming up that says they had Ad-Aware SE and it totally corrupted their system

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You reminded me of the very time when we first linked up to the Internet, and we had Norton Tools "loaded" and as soon as we connected a virus signature was released and corrupted the harddrive and Bios Meant a full formatting and reload of Windows
Put us off the idea on going online for about 6 months Had no idea of what was happening!
I also managed to release a "quarantined" Ada-ware file onto the Hard drive. Many Moons ago and it corrupted several drivers Had to remove Adaware for several weeks!Think it was a bug on version 5 ?
Versions 6 and SE have this bug under control now

So that means I should reinstall it? Cause you know I was told to uninstall it 2 weeks ago by a computer tech. Yet interestingly enough, uninstalling it did not help correct the damage that darn Second Thought trojan did....

It is safe to reinstall you probably had a misload
In addition load the Messenger Service stopper
and the VX2 files detector/remover from the "add-on" section if you can locate this?
Going off topic slightly have you got any thing like SpywareBlaster? This will cutdown the workload on Ad-aware by refusing entry to all sorts of nasties ,And a virus protection program like Avast! to keep the obvious away
These programs are Free
If you are running Broadband then a Firewall is a "Must" There are some free like Kerio
Run without a firewall hit the wrong site and you'll have a blizzard of spyware and other nasties to clear up and Ad-aware nor Spywareblaster may not stop it?
But on dial-up you'll only get 1 or 2 hits from the same address
Tell us if the Trojan returns There are 2 programs that may be able to deal with this and
you needn't delete Ad-aware

Ah. Thanks, BEdstor.

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Originally posted by bedstor:
Ps There will be the Post that will come up somewhere soon moaning that They have Ada-ware and they cannot update!

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It's already happened. It was the same post here that told me how to upgrade. A few days back.