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jraju:
Hi, I used wisecare some time back, and as per leo notes, aggressive cleaning also eats some system files which is listed in those cleaners. Even care should be taken when cleaning registry with ccleaner. I used to clean the three cleaners, but now i leave the registry and carefully studying before cleaning.
I also would download adware cleaner for malware bytes, that it is having huge user interface, but leaving browser hijacks as it is , as Shane has pointed out.
Regarding Boggins suggestion of JRT, I first advised everybody and also used the same to clean not deletable root kits. But the drawback is that user has no say in it. It is doing its job silently and user has no control whether to delete a file or not. It washed them all. But so far, it is good in cleaning adware and suspicious files inside registries also.
Boggins, where is the adw cleaner link to see what JRT cleans
Boggin:
Click on the AdwCleaner link and scroll down the page where you will see links for other anti malware scanners, click on the JRT one and that will take you to its download page where when you scroll down that, you'll see more info on the program's capability.
jraju:
Hi, I am already using JRT .But i do not know what it does. It simply kills unwanted files, as per thisusu.org pages, which is updated every day. I thought, you mean that ad cleaner has a kind of jrt and what it could kill.
The best tool of course, but there is no user control, on finding . It itself deletes and produce a log file. Thats all.
Boggin:
I found that AdwCleaner took out an insignificant program that I had no control over and while programs in themselves can be legit, it may still snag them as PuPs because they may display some of the traits they are looking for.
I don't run AdwCleaner or JRT on a regular basis if at all, but I will advise others to run them when I suspect their connectivity problems are caused by adware or toolbars.
jraju:
Hi,
I ran adware cleaner, and its scan shows esupport.com in the user temp folder. I searched for it in net and found that it was injected when i tried their biosagent updates from their site. Seems that adware cleaner is working right, Boggins. I deleted and reboot to get rid of it.
I saw a review on it for easy update of bios on that program. But when i installed after creating Restore Point, surprised to see that the promised scan results are not shown. Moreover, when i attempted sys restore, it does not work in normal and safe mode also.
Spurious program and i finally restored using repair option and then selecting system restore from there. It seems that adware cleanrer is finding the suspicious. Then i found that it (esupport.com) is making inroad to your registries and doing mischiefs.
Warning:Please see the link: but do not download anything
http://biosagentplus.com/?ref=616&PHPSESSID=0gl2k2dmbdfgur3d8l3a99upd2
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