I know that Ad-Aware 2008 will be defunct once AE gets all the bugs worked out. However, I thought I should let you all know that these two programs are no longer friendly to one another. Ad-Aware now has been trying to gain access to Norton Anti-Virus every time I run a scan with it. Fortunately, Norton has been blocking it but that program considers it more than a low risk threat. BTW when I run a scan with Norton it does not go after Ad-Aware in this fashion.

I'm sorry to see this happen. From the very beginning I have protected my comp successfully with these two programs running side by side.

When you go over to AE this will not be a problem, since you can have one custom scan (with the free version) and with the custom scan you can edit the folders you want AE to scan.

Thus you can edit out the Norton folder

Casey

Hello:

When you run a scan with Ad-Aware 2008, does it throw an error when it attempts to scan within the Norton AntiVirus 2009 directories? What does Ad-Aware 2008 actually do when it encounters Norton AntiVirus 2009? I was considering upgrading some client machines from Norton AntiVirus 2008 to Norton AntiVirus 2009, while keeping Ad-Aware 2008, until the bugs get shaken out of Ad-Aware AE.

Is anyone running these two programs and having this same issue? Is anyone running these two programs without any issues? Users' experiences with these two programs, running on the same machine, are greatly appreciated. Thank you.

--Dylan

Hello Voltron!

I received no error message from Ad-Aware 2008 when it scanned. Everything appeared to work as it should.

However, when I checked the History log in Norton Anti -Virus 2009 there were mutliple instances of Ad-Aware's aaservice.exe trying to gain access to the following which triggered medium risk and blocking tags:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\PIF\{B8E1DD85-8582-4c61-B58F-2F227FCA9A08}\PIF Svc.exe
C:\Program Files\Norton AntiVirus\Engine\16.2.0.7\ccSvcHst.exe

And one instance in which Ad-Aware's Threatwork.exe was allowed to gain access to the following but the event was logged and tagged as a medium risk:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\PIF\{B8E1DD85-8582-4c61-B58F-2F227FCA9A08}\PIF Svc.exe

Now I caught all of this after I had run a second scan with Ad-Aware. Looking back to the first time I did it with the new Norton the result was the same.

There is nothing about the new version of Norton that makes me think it is the cause. It performs like it should and does nothing to Ad-Aware 2008 when I still had it loaded. I uninstalled it because I wasn't sure what would happen if Norton didn't keep blocking it from going where it need not go if my guess is correct.