AdAware: Checkbox behavior normal?

[CZroe]

I run AdAware routinely on many systems I encounter. Often, the recognized "objects" are all checked when displayed in a list, but then again, often they are not. This is especially annoying when you have hundreds of "objects" to check. 300+ objects required over 600+ keystrokes to check (Down + SPACE x 300). It almost seems like this is some sort of inconvenience that some spyware programs cause by purposely interfering with AdAware, but I'd expect them to do something much more drastic if they actually bothered (Replace the definitions to exclude themselves or block access to AdAware's domain, etc).

It's no small inconvenience. With the penetration spyware has with computers "in the wild" you can expect a long several minutes just checking the boxes on 3 of 5 systems that would otherwise be a simple casual scan / fix. Yes, by encountering these computers frequently, the annoyance has gotten to the point that I had to make a post about it.

Who else does this happen to and why? Why hasn't AdAware fixed it? I could easily imagine any user who previously tolerated spyware who decided to get rid of it giving up on removal altogether after encountering this.

Also, why does AdAware frequently tell me that it did not remove certain components and that it must scan at the next boot to do so yet then find nothing at the next boot? Does it go ahead and delete them before the second attempted scan and removal? That sure isn't the way they put it.

 

[Balt]

Rather than clicking on each box to delete each instance of spyware/cookies, why not just right click on one box and then click on "Select all"?

 

[Pepsi90919]

tell me you knew about the 'select all' in the right click menu...

 

[WTT0001]

Ditto, Right-click and Select all

 

[dman]

Dang, I was wondering about that, on some PC's it auto-selected and on others it didn't. I tried the box on top but that didn't work... usually I just clicked everything manually, darn, right click, who woulda thought!