Although Ad-Aware SE Personal has generally been a reliable spyware removal tool, please don't run AdAware (seems limited to the free version) without extreme caution this week.

It's killing internet connections, running system restore isn't fixing it for all. Read the discussion at the Lavasoft forums below

Scroll to the bottom of the link to read the discussions

http://www.lavasoftsupport.com/index.php?showtopic=60484&hl=tib+browser+object

Thanks for the Heads up Bazcaz
I am passing this on to a UK Forum (www.webuser.co.uk) who may be able to work out whats happening here
Judging by the original poster they really have a choked machine with that many finds
If they have other software such as Spywareblaster running the number would be about a dozen finds tops and no real nasties
Must have be running Broadband with no firewall to have got into that state?
Thats my best Theory
Ps I have gone past that update ( Things are normal here)

Here is the post I made on the other site (Links back to here)

No problems here so far! I just updated the other day, and ran a scan, nothing so far.

chris

I posted a similiar warning last Oct. My computer was compromised by Ad-Aware SE Personal, infiltrated by many viruses, and ended up totally "fried." I no longer trust this program and have read many discussions on C/Net regarding the safety of using this program.

Ad-Aware have resumed updates.I have had 2 since the bad batch (now SE1R34 23.03.2005 )
I think it's now safe to resume normal manual scans Lavasoft will have made extra sure these latest updates don't have a nasty surprise in them

Have they got the kinks worked out, or is it still problematic? I didn't put two and two together until I saw this post (been having a little freezing up but it wasn't really bad), and then I updated from SE1R34.23.03.2005 last nite to SE1R36.01.04.2005 and that's when it froze up everything. I had to literally hold the power button until the pc shut down. I couldn't get it to do anything, wouldn't click on anything, just was froze. So when it booted this morning, it did a system scan of course, from being shut down improperly, and went ahead and loaded but am getting a strange clicking noise coming from the back of it, like somethings not right on start up, can anyone else confirm they're having problems with Ad-Aware SE Personal?

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I think it's now safe to resume normal manual scans Lavasoft will have made extra sure these latest updates don't have a nasty surprise in them

What do you mean? I've been doing scans all along, manually. Should I set it to scan automatically, I don't like it doing that, when I'm doing some other task, can you tell me a little more about this?

PS: Still using WinMe, (I know I'm beating a dead horse, lol. With IE 5) but hey it's been alive for over 6 years, and still kicking .

Panic over
The updates are ok again. I gave it 2 updates since the bad batch before doing a scan.
The problem arose when people ran a Scan with those updates Not by downloading and not running a scan...
I'm glad it does not have an "autorun a scan on a daily schedule" routine otherwise there would have been real grief among many of the users

Apparently I've been rather lucky with this, as I've updated, and ran scans without any problems. This is a first! LOL

chris