Recently, I've noticed several issues related to the new AdAware 2007.
My boot time significantly increased after installing the latest version.
I've
had a few issues related to the AdAware service ( aawservice.exe ) not
starting or experiencing abnormal stops.

Today I was updating my copy of AutoRuns.exe and noticed a new
entry in the Boot Execute section - Isdelete.Exe. Did a little research on
this and decided to temporarily disable the call to Isdelete.Exe at boot.
Interestingly, my boot time decreased from ~63 seconds back to it's
more normal 38-Seconds.

While I'm not at this point to uninstall Ad-Aware, I'm not very happy
with the changes. This new version is way too convoluted to update and
has a unusually long lag time when it goes off to check for updates.

Anyone else having issues with Ad-Aware 2007 ?

R. McCarty wrote:
> Recently, I've noticed several issues related to the new AdAware 2007.
> My boot time significantly increased after installing the latest version.
> I've
> had a few issues related to the AdAware service ( aawservice.exe ) not
> starting or experiencing abnormal stops.
>
> Today I was updating my copy of AutoRuns.exe and noticed a new
> entry in the Boot Execute section - Isdelete.Exe. Did a little research on
> this and decided to temporarily disable the call to Isdelete.Exe at boot.
> Interestingly, my boot time decreased from ~63 seconds back to it's
> more normal 38-Seconds.
>
> While I'm not at this point to uninstall Ad-Aware, I'm not very happy
> with the changes. This new version is way too convoluted to update and
> has a unusually long lag time when it goes off to check for updates.
>
> Anyone else having issues with Ad-Aware 2007 ?
>
>


I, too, run AdAware 2007 on my computer (along with several other
spyware/malware type detectors) and out of curiosity, I ran a complete
search - hidden files, system files, etc. - for "isdelete.exe" It is
not on my computer anywhere. Are you sure the boot slowdown caused by
isdelete is an issue with AdAware itself?

Tony

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Reasonably sure. I took an Image of my system volume before I made
any changes. Earlier I had taken a stop watch check of the boot time &
it was ~63 seconds. Actually I also took a BootVis run to see the times
for boot/driver/startups & watchdog times.
After I disabled the IsDelete.Exe call with AutoRuns I did another time
check with the stopwatch and BootVis and both confirmed a completed
boot at 39.2 Seconds. Actually looking at the Trace log with BootVis it
showed a completed boot cycle at 34 Seconds.

Nothing else was changed except for the call to IsDelete.

Not a big issue, but I really dislike all these programs adding new features
that don't really return a true benefit. Ad-Aware was fine in it's earlier
form and the new one is just more "Bells-&-Whistles".

"Tony Meloche" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> R. McCarty wrote:
>> Recently, I've noticed several issues related to the new AdAware 2007.
>> My boot time significantly increased after installing the latest version.
>> I've
>> had a few issues related to the AdAware service ( aawservice.exe ) not
>> starting or experiencing abnormal stops.
>>
>> Today I was updating my copy of AutoRuns.exe and noticed a new
>> entry in the Boot Execute section - Isdelete.Exe. Did a little research
>> on
>> this and decided to temporarily disable the call to Isdelete.Exe at boot.
>> Interestingly, my boot time decreased from ~63 seconds back to it's
>> more normal 38-Seconds.
>>
>> While I'm not at this point to uninstall Ad-Aware, I'm not very happy
>> with the changes. This new version is way too convoluted to update and
>> has a unusually long lag time when it goes off to check for updates.
>>
>> Anyone else having issues with Ad-Aware 2007 ?
>
>
> I, too, run AdAware 2007 on my computer (along with several other
> spyware/malware type detectors) and out of curiosity, I ran a complete
> search - hidden files, system files, etc. - for "isdelete.exe" It is not
> on my computer anywhere. Are you sure the boot slowdown caused by
> isdelete is an issue with AdAware itself?
>
> Tony
>
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R. McCarty wrote:
> Recently, I've noticed several issues related to the new AdAware 2007.
> My boot time significantly increased after installing the latest version.
> I've
> had a few issues related to the AdAware service ( aawservice.exe ) not
> starting or experiencing abnormal stops.
>
> Today I was updating my copy of AutoRuns.exe and noticed a new
> entry in the Boot Execute section - Isdelete.Exe. Did a little research on
> this and decided to temporarily disable the call to Isdelete.Exe at boot.
> Interestingly, my boot time decreased from ~63 seconds back to it's
> more normal 38-Seconds.
>
> While I'm not at this point to uninstall Ad-Aware, I'm not very happy
> with the changes. This new version is way too convoluted to update and
> has a unusually long lag time when it goes off to check for updates.
>
> Anyone else having issues with Ad-Aware 2007 ?

Using Freeware version gives no similar entry in Boot Execute section.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
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R. McCarty wrote:
> Recently, I've noticed several issues related to the new AdAware 2007.
> My boot time significantly increased after installing the latest
> version. I've
> had a few issues related to the AdAware service ( aawservice.exe ) not
> starting or experiencing abnormal stops.
>
> Today I was updating my copy of AutoRuns.exe and noticed a new
> entry in the Boot Execute section - Isdelete.Exe. Did a little
> research on this and decided to temporarily disable the call to
> Isdelete.Exe at boot. Interestingly, my boot time decreased from ~63
> seconds back to it's more normal 38-Seconds.
>
> While I'm not at this point to uninstall Ad-Aware, I'm not very happy
> with the changes. This new version is way too convoluted to update and
> has a unusually long lag time when it goes off to check for updates.
>
> Anyone else having issues with Ad-Aware 2007 ?

R. McCarty wrote:
> Reasonably sure. I took an Image of my system volume before I made
> any changes. Earlier I had taken a stop watch check of the boot time &
> it was ~63 seconds. Actually I also took a BootVis run to see the times
> for boot/driver/startups & watchdog times.
> After I disabled the IsDelete.Exe call with AutoRuns I did another time
> check with the stopwatch and BootVis and both confirmed a completed
> boot at 39.2 Seconds. Actually looking at the Trace log with BootVis it
> showed a completed boot cycle at 34 Seconds.
>
> Nothing else was changed except for the call to IsDelete.
>
> Not a big issue, but I really dislike all these programs adding new features
> that don't really return a true benefit. Ad-Aware was fine in it's earlier
> form and the new one is just more "Bells-&-Whistles".


I agree with that. I don't let any of the "antispy/malware"
programs start at boot up and run in the background (except Norton and
my firewall)- I run them proactively in rotation, usually one a day, and
I update them weekly. Letting one - or worse, several of them - run in
the background just causes annoyances at best, and outright trouble at
worst. The aspects of the programs that cause the most annoyances are
invariably the "add-ons" that the program didn't have initially, and
usually didn't need, in my view.

Tony



>
> "Tony Meloche" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> R. McCarty wrote:
>>> Recently, I've noticed several issues related to the new AdAware 2007.
>>> My boot time significantly increased after installing the latest version.
>>> I've
>>> had a few issues related to the AdAware service ( aawservice.exe ) not
>>> starting or experiencing abnormal stops.
>>>
>>> Today I was updating my copy of AutoRuns.exe and noticed a new
>>> entry in the Boot Execute section - Isdelete.Exe. Did a little research
>>> on
>>> this and decided to temporarily disable the call to Isdelete.Exe at boot.
>>> Interestingly, my boot time decreased from ~63 seconds back to it's
>>> more normal 38-Seconds.
>>>
>>> While I'm not at this point to uninstall Ad-Aware, I'm not very happy
>>> with the changes. This new version is way too convoluted to update and
>>> has a unusually long lag time when it goes off to check for updates.
>>>
>>> Anyone else having issues with Ad-Aware 2007 ?
>>
>> I, too, run AdAware 2007 on my computer (along with several other
>> spyware/malware type detectors) and out of curiosity, I ran a complete
>> search - hidden files, system files, etc. - for "isdelete.exe" It is not
>> on my computer anywhere. Are you sure the boot slowdown caused by
>> isdelete is an issue with AdAware itself?
>>
>> Tony
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Yep, it's in my freeware version, as to a slowdown in boot times there has
been some although I have not disabled Isdelete to see how much faster the
system boots.

JS

"R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:e1HPlMH%(E-Mail Removed)...
> Recently, I've noticed several issues related to the new AdAware 2007.
> My boot time significantly increased after installing the latest version.
> I've
> had a few issues related to the AdAware service ( aawservice.exe ) not
> starting or experiencing abnormal stops.
>
> Today I was updating my copy of AutoRuns.exe and noticed a new
> entry in the Boot Execute section - Isdelete.Exe. Did a little research on
> this and decided to temporarily disable the call to Isdelete.Exe at boot.
> Interestingly, my boot time decreased from ~63 seconds back to it's
> more normal 38-Seconds.
>
> While I'm not at this point to uninstall Ad-Aware, I'm not very happy
> with the changes. This new version is way too convoluted to update and
> has a unusually long lag time when it goes off to check for updates.
>
> Anyone else having issues with Ad-Aware 2007 ?
>

One piece of info I located was in the following thread,
( Last Entry ).
http://forums.tweakguides.com/showthread.php?t=6318
I just checked my system and there is no file named IsDelete.Exe.
Not sure if it's from an earlier version of Ad-Aware 2007 or how
the Boot Execute call was generated. Anyway my machine is
better off without the call to it.

"Gerry" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Using Freeware version gives no similar entry in Boot Execute section.
>
>
> --
>
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Gerry
> ~~~~
> FCA
> Stourport, England
> Enquire, plan and execute
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> R. McCarty wrote:
>> Recently, I've noticed several issues related to the new AdAware 2007.
>> My boot time significantly increased after installing the latest
>> version. I've
>> had a few issues related to the AdAware service ( aawservice.exe ) not
>> starting or experiencing abnormal stops.
>>
>> Today I was updating my copy of AutoRuns.exe and noticed a new
>> entry in the Boot Execute section - Isdelete.Exe. Did a little
>> research on this and decided to temporarily disable the call to
>> Isdelete.Exe at boot. Interestingly, my boot time decreased from ~63
>> seconds back to it's more normal 38-Seconds.
>>
>> While I'm not at this point to uninstall Ad-Aware, I'm not very happy
>> with the changes. This new version is way too convoluted to update and
>> has a unusually long lag time when it goes off to check for updates.
>>
>> Anyone else having issues with Ad-Aware 2007 ?
>
>

Gerry wrote:
> Using Freeware version gives no similar entry in Boot Execute section.
>
>

Maybe that's it - I am using the freeware version, too.

Tony

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On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 11:06:18 -0400, "R. McCarty"
<PcEngWork-NoSpam_@mindspring.com> wrote:

> Recently, I've noticed several issues related to the new AdAware 2007.
>My boot time significantly increased after installing the latest version.
>I've
>had a few issues related to the AdAware service ( aawservice.exe ) not
>starting or experiencing abnormal stops.
>
> Today I was updating my copy of AutoRuns.exe and noticed a new
>entry in the Boot Execute section - Isdelete.Exe. Did a little research on
>this and decided to temporarily disable the call to Isdelete.Exe at boot.
>Interestingly, my boot time decreased from ~63 seconds back to it's
>more normal 38-Seconds.
>
> While I'm not at this point to uninstall Ad-Aware, I'm not very happy
>with the changes. This new version is way too convoluted to update and
>has a unusually long lag time when it goes off to check for updates.
>
>Anyone else having issues with Ad-Aware 2007 ?
>


I'm running Ad-Aware 2005. I uninstalled Ad-Aware 2007. The Ad-Aware
2007 has poor ratings and does not catch some of the major critical
malwares.