NoAdware detection

[mikey]

NoAdware: Uninstall settings (Registry key, nothing done)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\NoAdware_is1

I'm aware that NoAdware is a piece of _____ but I know of no threat involved with it. The only reason for it on board this box is for review.

So is this detection a F/P? If not, why detect only this key and no files or other keys?

[codito]

NoAdware is useless and maybe harmful. After installing it temprorily, it detected non-existent threats and although I am not sure, may have even installed/falsified its results. After running checks with every well-know and trusted anti-spyware tool out there, I was satisfied that it is best left uninstalled and off my computer.

[mikey]

Still in the new sigs...can anyone give me the heads up?

[tashi]

Hi mikey, I will bring this to teams attention. May not be until monday.
Have a good weekend.

[mikey]

Thank you much, Tashi.

[PepiMK]

That detection is from 2002, and targets a version of NoAdware that was sneaking into the system without asking the user. I guess from that point, it would be better to call it a hijacker and not malware?