Ad-Aware 2008 2008 Online Manual

Performing Scan

After you select a scan mode and click “Scan”, Ad-Aware 2007 will begin to scan your system, and the “Performing Scan” screen will appear.

Note! Virus Warnings

While performing a scan with Ad-Aware 2007, a background anti-virus monitor (from another provider) may issue an alert, stating that a virus has been found in the temporary directory (%temp%) for the current user. This does not necessarily mean your computer has been infected with an active virus.

Most anti-virus resident scanners will not scan compressed files and only monitor your memory for signs of an active viral process. During a scan, Ad-Aware 2007 will temporarily decompress files to scan their contents without activating the content, but in doing so, the file is noticed by the anti-virus' resident scanner. Also, some anti-virus applications include an option to quarantine infected files, and when Ad-Aware 2007 decompresses these quarantined files, the anti-virus background scanner detects the virus moving outside the quarantine area.

To avoid this, you can either remove the quarantined files through your anti-virus application, or have Ad-Aware 2007 ignore the anti-virus program's quarantine folders/files during a scan.