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| 353261 | 2005-05-08 06:22:00 | hi, i read earlier on these forums that adaware clears your dns settings? is this true, anyone? | Kindel (6640) | ||
| 353262 | 2005-05-08 06:24:00 | No not on dialup anyway. You SHOULD have replied to the other post, not create another post. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 353263 | 2005-05-08 07:41:00 | never seen it yet. | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 353264 | 2005-05-09 02:02:00 | I got a virus that did something with my settings. I ran Adaware SE, Norton CE, Spybot S&D (don't you love all the extra letters you have to add to a product's name to get better sales?) Speed up My PC 2.04 and other cleaner programs. It reset my DNS settings. I set them back, everything except the valve games worked. I had to open ports on the router to get it to work. Maybe you got some bugs? Did this actually happen, or are you just asking? |
nugg0t (8055) | ||
| 353265 | 2005-05-09 02:11:00 | Yes, it does it to me, if you delete everything it detects, there is a couple of registry keys that it detects that must hold the manual DNS info, it has done it ever since the new version has come out. | snoopy (74) | ||
| 353266 | 2005-05-09 02:30:00 | Next time you run adaware, have a look for any entries that are tagged with a vendor of either "Other" or "Possible Browser Hijack Attempt" of type "RegData" in the category "Data Miner" with a key of something like : "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE_SYSTEM \ ?Control Set? \ services \ tcpip \ Parameter \ Interfaces \ ?" The question marks will have slightly differing values. You might even find some of these in your Ad-Aware quarantine file and you may have more than one entry (1 for each browser perhaps?) I'm not sure of the 'tcpip' part for dial up but that is what I see in XP SP2 with ADSL via a router. If you find these in a scan, rather than delete them, add them to your 'ignore list'. In future Ad-Aware will ignore these items and preserve the settings contained therein. I had a similar problem but after doing this I haven't had any issues with Ad-Aware and XP SP2 since. I don't believe they are adware or spyware, rather the tcpip settings for my browser / router. HTH, Andrew. :) |
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