I Have a Question

[classycat]

WHEN MY VIRUS SCAN RUNS, IT SHOWS MY AD AWARE TO BE A VIRUS THREAT.

WHY ?  AND WHAT SHOULD I DO?

I USE NORTON AND HAVE WIN. XP

THANKS

[Eric the Red]

Hi classycat, welcome to the forum.

The following information from lavasoft may assist you.

SYMPTOM
While performing a scan with Ad-aware, a background antivirus monitor may issue an alert, stating that a virus has been found in a subfolder of the Ad-aware folder.

CAUSE
During a scan, Ad-aware will temporarily decompress files to scan their contents.  Some antivirus applications include an option to quarantine infected files, and when Ad-aware decompresses these quarantined files, the antivirus background scanner detects the virus moving outside the quarantine area.

RESOLUTION
Either remove the quarantined files via your antivirus application, or have Ad-aware ignore the antivirus program's quarantine folders/files during a scan.

I hope that that helps

[Die Hard]

classycat, hello and welcome  :thumbsup:

You can read Eric the Red´s information "backwards", too. AdAware also creates backups,Quarantine which it stores in a subfolder. This quarantine contains the baddies removed during scans and they could later be picked up and detected by your antivirus program.

The resolution is the same :

RESOLUTION
Either remove the quarantined files in your AdAware, or have Norton ignore AdAware´s  quarantine folders/files during a scan.

Die Hard :)