Incompatibility notice

[Casey_boy]

Hi,

I am a valued member tester for ad-aware but am also a spybot sd user.

I received the incompatibility message from spybot about ad-aware. Whilst, I disagree with the warning, this is something for the corporate discussions. I would just like to point out the obvious spelling mistake in your message.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v322/cav3micky/Spybotwarning.jpg

Note
Ignore to now longer... which of course, should be Ignore to no longer...

Thanks,

Casey

[md usa spybot fan]

Casey_boy:


... I would just like to point out the obvious spelling mistake in your message.



Ignore to now longer...


The problem was already noted and coded for correction in a future release. See post #68 (http://forums.spybot.info/showpost.php?p=203609&postcount=68) and post #69 (http://forums.spybot.info/showpost.php?p=203610&postcount=69) in the following thread:
Spybot-S&D 1.6, beta 1
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=29109

[PepiMK]

And I remember someone here recently spoke with Lavasoft on how to avoid this issue, not sure where it lead to though.

[md usa spybot fan]

The only incompatibility between Spybot & Lavasoft's Ad-Aware that I have ever encountered involves Spybot's IE tweaks (Advanced mode » Tools).

There are three "Miscellaneous locks" on Spybot's IE tweaks page:
Lock Hosts file read-only as protection against hijackers
Lock IE start page setting against user changes (current user)
Lock IE control panel against opening from within IE (current user)
If you check either/both of the following options (items 2 & 3), Lavasoft's Ad-Aware detects those restrictions that are placed in the registry as potential threats:
Lock IE start page setting against user changes (current user)
Lock IE control panel against opening from within IE (current user)
I have add both of those detections as exclusions in Lavasoft's Ad-Aware.

[Casey_boy]

Hi guys,

thanks for getting back to me :) sorry about the duplicate then, i did do a search but didn't stumble upon your post.

I'm sure that there will be a way for them to work in harmony.

After all only the IE homepage lock and the hosts file editor (pro only) are available in ad-aware.

So if there were a way to get spybot to allow ad-aware to change these settings or for ad-aware to advise that they are locked by spybot.... actually it might be easier just to display the warning lol.