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For years I have used Adaware. Was using version 9 with no problems once I finally got it to stop deleting LB2.exe. Then I made the mistake of 'upgrading' to Adaware 10 which decided to be an antivirus in addition to an antispyware program.

You guessed it!! First thing it did was delete LB2.exe!! I restored it from Quarrantine and put it into the Ignore list. BOOM! It deleted it again and also deleted it from the backup copy I had of all the changed files from the 2.09 patch.

Since it was slowing down my system painfully anyway, I uninstalled Adaware completely.

I restored LB2.exe from my other computer and tried to run it. It keeps asking for a CD even though I have BOTH LB2 Disc .iso mounted in Daemon Tools AND for good measure stuck a real CD into my CD-ROM drive.

I don't think I have ever run across this before... anyone have a fix?? Maybe I need to do a System Restore from BEFORE installing ADAWARE 10, but I hope it doesn't come to that.


Whew!!! False Alarm! Turns out on my old computer I was running the 'cracked' LB2.exe that someone made which requires copying a bunch of files from the CD to the LB2 folder. I thought that I had abandoned this even on the old machine for the much simpler .iso mounting. Anyway, I found the original LB2.exe that I had backed up on the old machine, dropped it in, and everything is fine again.

Seems like Adaware may have screwed up some other stuff as well...so I may STILL have to do that system restore!

Still making those schoolboy errors, are we?

Glad everything worked out OK, I hate it when these programs we've used for years get too big for their boots and end up tacking a load of other features on that we don't need. What were simple and effective programs end up as bloatware.

I guess I am entering my second childhood.



Totally. In the good old days, the one-two punch of Adaware and Spybot S&D were all you needed to banish the majority of ad/mal-ware. They were purely on demand. Then always on features and "immunizations" started creeping in until the feature creep and bloat caused almost as many problems as did the malware they were trying to defend against.

My first run of Adaware 9 removed not only LB2.exe as a false positive, but several other Janes .exe files as well (and I think some non-Janes). Luckily, it was as simple matter to restore them from quarrantine, set the software to IGNORE them, and peace was restored throughout the kingdom. With version 10, IGNORE didn't seem to do anything to its voracious appetite for preventing LB2 from running and slowing down everything else.

Guess I will just rely on my periodic MalwareBytes scans for protection.

I hear ya, and I tried no-end of anti-malware programs before I found out about, first, Spybot S&D and later, MalwareBytes. Most of the programs I tried said that various system files were infected and one had an obsession with Windows Media Player, always saying that core files were infected. Of course, I just ran with it several times thinking they knew best... only to end up with broken programs and system functions.

Hi Reculse,

Good to see LB2 is still working for you.



For whatever my opinion is worth to you, I seriously wouldn't recommend doing that. MBAM was never designed to be used as standalone antivirus (devs admit as much here ), and an active scanner is a necessity for any online machine. I'd use an AV that has a working "exceptions" or "ignore" list, and that has some method of easily deactivating the active scanner while you're doing CPU/disk-heavy things.

Your opinion is in the majority for sure, but, honestly, I have run without an active virus scanner for many years relying on the protection afforded by being behind a router. The only major malware infestation I have had resulted from my own stupidity in installing stuff I should have been more careful with and one very malicious web page. YES, perhaps having had an active scanner would had prevented that, but as a risk/benefit ratio, my strategy has been largely successful.

When I had the previous version of ADAWARE actively scanning, it never found anything but false positives.

@Recluse...
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LB2 still runs a few of my PCs