Until Lavasoft do a fix in the next Ad-aware update it may be worth warning Disk Watchman users to tick the option in Ad-aware to add DW.COM to the Exclude list. Lavasoft are hard at work on a major upgrade to version 2 so it may be worth adding your own friendly notification to mine to ensure a suitable fix is incorporated.
Roslyn
Thank you for your message. It seems that you mean the DW.EXE file.
I downloaded the latest Ad-aware version with update but it doesn`t find DW.EXE as a adware component.
Could you please write us your DW and Ad-aware version numbers?
Thank you!
Sincerely,
Alexander.
| Alexander Bednyakov
| Senior Developer
| MetaProducts Corporation
> Thank you!
OK latest versions as listed on sites DW.EXE 1.2.75
Ad-Aware 5.83 Build 2.930 Sigfile 042-24.09.2002
(also picked up with 029-15.06.2002)
Tried both AAW 5.83 and 5.83 Plus no difference.
Enclosed Ad-Aware logfile - note item #32
Using WinXP home Sp1
Roslyn.
Scan initialized on 25/12/2002 19:05:41.
(AAW release 5.83 Plus, referencefile 042-24.09.2002)
======================================================
Started memory scan
====================
Running processes:
#:1 : smss.exe
#:2 : winlogon.exe
#:3 : services.exe
#:4 : lsass.exe
#:5 : svchost.exe
#:6 : svchost.exe
#:7 : spoolsv.exe
#:8 : mlsrvnt.exe
#:9 : named.exe
#:10 : slserv.exe
#:11 : spidernt.exe
#:12 : upsd.exe
#:13 : vsmon.exe
#:14 : mspmspsv.exe
#:15 : explorer.exe
#:16 : so.exe
#:17 : boclean.exe
#:18 : gsicon.exe
#:19 : dslagent.exe
#:20 : atiptaxx.exe
#:21 : bocsec.exe
#:22 : dumeter.exe
#:23 : hpztsb04.exe
#:24 : type32.exe
#:25 : desktool.exe
#:26 : mups.exe
#:27 : proxomitron.exe
#:28 : zapro.exe
#:29 : ietsr.exe
#:30 : iexplore.exe
#:31 : emeditor.exe
#:32 : dw.exe
Warning! DOWNLOADWARE module loaded: dw.exe (D:\DiskTool\Disk Watchman\DW.exe)
"dw.exe" unload successfull!
#:33 : ad-aware.exe
Memory scan result:
Total modules found:33
Suspicious modules found:1
Scanning finished
==================
Suspicious modules found:1
Suspicious keys found : 0
Suspicious folders found:0
Suspicious files found:0
=========================
Components ignored:0
Total components found:1
> #:31 : emeditor.exe
>
> #:32 : dw.exe
> Warning! DOWNLOADWARE module loaded: dw.exe (D:\DiskTool\Disk Watchman\DW.exe)
>
> "dw.exe" unload successfull!
>
> #:33 : ad-aware.exe
Heh... It seems that they use the DownloadWare abbreviation (DW) to detect this item...
No size or date comparison. Fine! They don`t care about false matches.
Thank you for your message.
Sincerely,
Alexander.
> No size or date comparison. Fine! They don`t care about false matches.
Ahh! Found reference to the real spyware item dw.exe. Geez nowdays all these search programs
should be using Hash compare at least.
http://www.winpatrol.com/stats.html item 3
Roslyn
Thank you for your message. I wrote an e-mail to them to ask any possible way to fix this problem.
In the meantime, I think that we need to change the name of Disk Watchman executable file for the next version.
Thanks,
Alexander.
I see the site page above has been modified with a Disk Watchman safe note
Roslyn