Recently, my Ad-Watch has starting loggin events constantly--at a rate of several per second. They are all the same type of event: "Registry Modification Detected." Is it possible that some program is contnually trying to modify the registry and that Ad-Watch is picking up on that. Are there other possible explanations? If I can't find a way to stop this, I'm going to have to unload Ad-Watch (the constant blinking is unnerving). Any help would be appreciated.

ecpepper

Hi

Could you post some samples of the events please? On the ad-watch icon on the system tray right mouse click and select "Restore Ad-Watch", if the tools & preferences menu is displayed press the events button, in the event log right mouse click and select "detailed event-log" then right mouse click again and select export event-log. Save the log e.g. as events.txt then navigate to the folder you saved the file to (it defaults to the installation folder under c:\program files\lavasoft\ad-aware.... double mouse click on the events.txt file to open in notepad and then cut and paste a sample of the events into a reply to this thread.

I have the same problem. Here is a copy of the first few in my events log.

Ad-Watch Logfile, exported on 2/10/2007
Total number of events:19896
===============================================
2/10/2007 11:18:46 AM - Definitions file SE1R150 09.02.2007 loaded successfully.
Build:SE1R150 09.02.2007
Total Signatures :83547
Target Families :1037
Target Categories :6
CSI data Size :394468

File Size :3230886

===============================================
2/10/2007 11:18:46 AM - User preferences file loaded.
Ad-Watch preference file loaded.
Applying user settings
C:\Documents and Settings\Todd\Application Data\Lavasoft\Ad-Aware\awsettings.awc
Initialization complete.




===============================================
2/10/2007 11:18:46 AM - Sites file loaded.
Sites file loaded successfully.
C:\My Download Files\Ad-Aware SE Plus\sites.txt
Total entries : 3223





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2/10/2007 11:19:12 AM - Registry modification detected
Root:HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key:Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
Value:Search Page
Data:http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?prd=ie&ar=iesearch
New Data:http://www.google.com



===============================================
2/10/2007 11:19:12 AM - Registry modification detected
Root:HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key:Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search
Value:SearchAssistant
Data:
New Data:http://www.google.com/ie



===============================================
2/10/2007 11:19:12 AM - Registry modification detected
Root:HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key:Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl
Value:provider
Data:
New Data:gogl



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2/10/2007 11:19:12 AM - Registry modification detected
Root:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key:Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
Value:Default_Search_URL
Data:http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?prd=ie&ar=iesearch
New Data:http://www.google.com/ie



===============================================
2/10/2007 11:19:12 AM - Registry modification detected
Root:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key:Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search
Value:Default_Search_URL
Data:
New Data:http://www.google.com/ie



===============================================
2/10/2007 11:19:12 AM - Registry modification detected
Root:HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key:Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Value:ctfmon.exe
Data:
New Data:C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe

Each time I activate Ad-Watch it takes many minutes before I can use my computer.

Seems like ad-watch has gotten confused and forgotten everything. Now it assumes that anything different than nothing at all is a change. Also, you have it set on automatic mode, so it doesn't prompt you.

A clean re-install would likely clear this up.

I've had this problem too, the way I want about solving it was simple, just de-activate Ad-watch, then activate it again, you shouldhave no trouble in future.

The best way I've found around this (I've only had the problem twice) is to de-activate Adwatch, then to restart the computer. After that I've had no problems. Once the computer starts again, Adwatch should initialise as normal anf you should also be rid of those annoying event logs, failing that, see if you can't get an upgrade.