If you are using either Adare or Ad-watch be very careful, take a look of my other post; Major Problem is this a virus

It seems Lavasoft (program makers) have been aware of a problem for some time now and I am just its latest victim.

So back up your files now, luckily I wont be losing too many files when I reformat.

I have used Ad-Aware for the last 18 months on all my computers running Windows XP and XP-Pro. I have never had any problems at all.

Do you have the link to this info pietro?. I would like to know of any known issues too;).

Vidster,

This is just one of the many links I eventually found.

http://www.lavasoftsupport.com/index.php?showtopic=56503

Tried the fixes, nothing has worked so far.

Anoter one:

http://www.lavasoftsupport.com/index.php?showtopic=56533

If I read the links correctly they appear to describe the problem as having been caused by Ad-Watch which I do not think is part of the Ad-Aware freeware which is commonly recommended.

Was this your situation?

I was running Adaware Pro (Adwatch comes as part of this). I've been running this on various PC's for over a year now, with no problems.

The trouble seems to have started when I downloaded the updates yesterday.

I have now removed it from the PC I am working on at the moment and undecided whether to install the free version after all the trouble over the last two days.