AdAware results ... need some help please

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Daniel said:
Here are the results of my scan:

http://members.shaw.ca/sivlee/adawareresults.jpg

Please advise if I can safely delete these or should I leave these
alone .. They say in the description that it is "LOW" risk.
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The Alexa reg key is minor and can be left or deleted without impact. The
files are hard to answer as the data you show does not look familiar to
me, and you are not showing all of the data. I can't comfortably make a
recommendation one way or the other with incomplete data. What I can
offer is this. Ad-aware has been trusted by many people to do the job and
do it right, so you can gain some confidence in that. If you are unsure,
manually rename the files by changing the extension rather than delete
them. That way if it turns out the files are important you can simply
rename them back to the original name.
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Hi,

Alexa is a search tool - never seen it defined as spyware. Do you have their
toolbar installed? I would export a copy of that reg key before deleting it,
just in case.

The rest appear to be files housed under your local user profile - If the
full path leads to the IE content folders (TIF's) or a temp folder, then I
would say "yes", they are safe to delete.

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Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
 
Ad-Aware has a web based support group. I needed some advice on switches and
used it. The people there are very understanding and extremely helpful and
some of them appear to have been posting since day one, so to speak. You
might want to consult with them (with no disrespect intended for the people
here who answered your post. Just pointing to additional resources.)
 
Daniel said:
Here are the results of my scan:

http://members.shaw.ca/sivlee/adawareresults.jpg

Please advise if I can safely delete these or should I leave these
alone .. They say in the description that it is "LOW" risk.

Please advise,

Daniel
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When you right click and select Object Details on one of those entries, drag
the screen wide enough to see all of the details. Most of what you have
there are simple tracking cookies, which means that if you visit a website
that uses one of those advertising services, (ie: doubleclick, fastclick,
etc) the cookie will be read and custom ads that target things that you have
shown interest in on other websites will be displayed. Another cookie with
updated information will then be placed on your computer. This is what
"tracking cookies" do. There is nothing there can can cause problems by
being deleted.

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Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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Alexa, you can get rid of. Data Miner is also safe to delete. It's a general
label AdAware gives any "data mining" file.

Before running AdAware, make sure you do a Disk cleanup & then go to Docs &
settings / <your user name> / Local Settings, & clean out what's in Temp &
Temporary Internet Files.
Anything in Temp that doesn't want to be deleted, will let you know when you
try, so let them sit.
 
Use Spybot first and it will "replace" the alexa entry so that your registry
isn't hacked up too bad.

Delete all others regularly......

Pest Patrol also finds things that the others do not find........
 
Cyberniv said:
Daniel,

You could also use the Quarantine facility within the Adaware programme. If
you have any subsequent problems these items can be restored as required.
After a period of trouble free computing you can delete the Quarantine
contents.
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So when I "check" the items to be quarantined and then save them, and when
all that is done, do I then press "next" and delete the items ? Please
clarify.

Thanks,

Daniel
 
Daniel said:
So when I "check" the items to be quarantined and then save them, and
when all that is done, do I then press "next" and delete the items ?
Please clarify.

Thanks
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Daniel

Yes, when you select to quarantine an object, it is compressed, encrypted
and backed up to the quarantine folder. You will then delete the original
entry. You use the quarantine option to back up an object that you are not
sure of. Click on the quarantine icon (Box) at the top of the screen to view
the objects in quarantine. You can also restore them from that dialog.

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Ronnie Vernon MVP said:
Daniel

Yes, when you select to quarantine an object, it is compressed, encrypted
and backed up to the quarantine folder. You will then delete the original
entry. You use the quarantine option to back up an object that you are not
sure of. Click on the quarantine icon (Box) at the top of the screen to view
the objects in quarantine. You can also restore them from that dialog.
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Thank you Ronnie.

Daniel
 
Daniel said:
Thank you Ronnie.

Daniel
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Your Welcome, have fun. :)
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