I'm not sure if this sould go under software or virus forum....hope this is OK here  

I, and a NUMBER of others, have had a TERRIBLE time trying to download updates for AVG anti-virus. They are not even working when trying to download them manually from the site. This has been on-going for several weeks now.

I have finally given up on AVG. It is an excellent anti-virus program, but useless if I can't update it. I am also leery now of buying AVG's paid version....don't want the same update problems. So, I have uninstalled it and installed Avast A/V.

Now, for an Avast question: After my first scan, I got a window with a whole BUNCH of items I don't understand. I USE ADAWARE all the time. YET, when I scanned with Avast, I got repeated entries under c:\WINDOWS\Application Data....
Such things as \sbRecovery.ini (at least a dozen of these), and a bunch of cookies (advertising, bfast, doubleclick, fastclick, hitbox, etc).

Why isn't AdAware picking these up, or are they not spyware versions? Can/Should they be removed? Thanks for any insight here.  

Best....Larry

P.S. - I did register....been waiting all morning for my password, but it hasn't shown up yet....will keep watching email.Just as a point of information....in case this should come up for anyone else....I found the files that Avast anti-virus was coming up with. Although I use AdAware, I never removed Spybot. I didn't realize that Spybot had a folder in c:\WINDOWS\Application Data....

In this folder are several other folders. One of them is called Recovery. There is where all the files were stored that Spybot had removed. When I ran Avast, it found these files and listed them. So, all I had to do was to empty the Recovery folder.

Actually, this is good. It tells me that Avast is doing a good JOB. Anyway, just thought I'd pass this on.

Best...Larry