Purchased Ad-Aware SE Plus Vista Addons and Applications Discuss Purchased Ad-Aware SE Plus in the Windows Vista forums; Hi All: I ran Ad-Aware SE; it found to many "critical objects"--all accumulated within the last 2-3 days. While I didn't look completely carefully, ...

[Znod]

Hi All:

I ran Ad-Aware SE; it found to many "critical objects"--all accumulated within the last 2-3 days. While I didn't look completely carefully, they all appeared to be MS tracking cookies stored in the IE cache. I also had scanned with Windows Defender--which apparently was happy the items were present. I don't think the items were a threat, but so many in such a short period of time??? Go figure.

Also, when I was on another Vista site, I got a message that I had performed an "unauthorized action (or operation)." Not thinking, I clicked to close the box and was captured by some dumb sales of this, that, or the other site. Why anyone would think that "I" would purchase something from a site using such a tactic is beyond me. But, anyway, both Firefox and Windows Defender failed to make the needed stop.

So, I turned Defender completely off and purchased Ad-Aware SE Plus. I don't care for anything being added to my system that I don't know about.

Ad-Aware's Ad-Watch Monitoring caught what's pictured below right after a restart. Does anyone know what to make of the catch? I didn't know whether to let it happen or not. So, I blocked the change.

[crabby]

Lol... what a strange reg mod... Its turning CD burning from off to nothing? How many criticals did it find?

crabby

[felix8406]

I dwonloaded and installed the free version and it found 10 criticals. My HD stopped grinding, like running a program all the time, but the task manager did not show anything running. It was driving me nuts. Let's see if it stays that way.

[Znod]

Originally Posted by crabby

Lol... what a strange reg mod... Its turning CD burning from off to nothing? How many criticals did it find?
crabby

About 400, but note that only a relative few were accumulated the last few days. Most were from the IE cache in my Windows.old folder.

Yes, very strange. I think your interpretation is like mine. It was deleting a key that turns CD burning off. Does that mean that CD burning is turned off in my registry, and letting the key be deleted would be a good thing? But, you'd think the good thing would be to turn it own. What program or intruder might have been trying to delete the key?

Originally Posted by felix8406

I dwonloaded and installed the free version and it found 10 criticals. My HD stopped grinding, like running a program all the time, but the task manager did not show anything running. It was driving me nuts. Let's see if it stays that way.

Hey, another success. Good deal. As you probably found out, the "criticals" usually are tracking cookies and are of no consequence, but sometimes .... If you like Ad-Aware, then you might want to consider getting SE Plus so you have real-time monitoring. It does not seem to have affected the speed of my machine.

[felix8406]

Z, had you run Ad-Aware under 5600 yet? Any issues?

[Znod]

I have run it, but not lately. It runs fine. And, I like SE Plus' Ad-Watch (real-time) monitoring. Since I have the later, I haven't had much reason to run Ad-Aware. I have "monitoring" set to disallow even tracking cookies.

[felix8406]

I still have the Ad-Aware free version, but haven't run it yet. I'm afraid that it'll mess up the sleep mode again like it did on 5536.

[Znod]

Hi Friends:

I have not scanned with Ad-Aware in quite a while. Happily, Ad-Watch Monitoring appears to be doing an excellent job on Vista as implied below. It is set to block even tracking cookies.