[LiCal]

Lately, I noticed that Ad-aware has frequently identified from my Win98 PC about 30+ Critical Objects after each sweep, and some of them like 3721 are reliable repeaters. Wondering why the Win98 PC which is only used sparely and has very limited time exposure on line would attract those objects?

Yet, in contrast, on my other XP PC, which is used extensively daily on line, Ad-aware has not found problems : only those Negligible Objects.

Both are running Personal SE Build 1.06r1 with updated definition file.

I am wondering whether those objects found on the Win98 PC actually generated by some programs inside the PC that would automatically re-generate themselves after each Ad-Aware sweep/removal operation? Or something worse?
If so, how to detect/root out those items? And to Prevent them from being installed/run?

Edited by LiCal, 05 July 2005 - 03:58 AM.

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