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Ad-Aware and SpyBot won't complete

Feb 10, 2004 3:24AM PST

System has been running slow so I did a virus scan with updated Symantec AV, and then tried to run SpyBot. Could not update SpyBot, but could run under old settings. Tried to run Ad-Aware 6.0 and it kept hanging up when I reached C:\windows\system\drivers\. Cont-Alt-Del showed the normal running programs plus "DPPS" which I did not recognise. What is DPPS, and why can't I do a full scan with Ad-Aware? OS is Win 98 with all Service Paks installed.

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Re:Ad-Aware and SpyBot won't complete
Feb 10, 2004 3:38AM PST

What happens if you run Ad-aware Cloak ?

Ad-aware Cloak is designed to allow Ad-aware to open fully when there are items on the system which close Ad-aware when it attempts to start, such as some CoolWebSearch variants. To use Ad-aware Cloak, save it to your system, and run the program before opening Ad-aware. Once Ad-aware Cloak opens, click "Activate Cloak" and then open Ad-aware and scan as normal. When you are done using Ad-aware, close Ad-aware Cloak.

http://www.lavasoftnews.com/downloads/AAWCloak.exe

-DPPS
This flag controls the compilation of the ppsclock streams module support code. It indicates that the file /usr/include/sys/ppsclock.h is present.

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As for SpybotS&D
Feb 10, 2004 3:44AM PST

CoolWWWSearch.SmartKiller (v1 and v2) is a new, real ugly variant of CoolWWWSearch. When running, it will close every browser window you use to visit a large list of anti-spyware-sites, and even will close Spybot-S&D and some other anti-spyware applications as well.

So if your copy of Spybot-S&D (or the anti-spyware application of your choice) closes a few seconds after starting, or your browser closes whenever you try to visit an anti-spyware site, check our CWS.SmartKiller removal utility

http://www.safer-networking.org/minifiles.html