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    It happend again the old firefox-problem-see further above) when i cleaned from the browser files.

    multiple tabs will be opened, some are mozilla-sites, other FF-addons and startsite will be changed to mozilla.
    JRT which i ran after Adwcleaner did not change the old/repaired settings.

    Maybe better leave the browser-entries alone if nothing else had been offered to delete/clean. One cannot uncheck browser-findings.
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    The prefs.js file, located in the profile folder, is used by Firefox, Thunderbird, Mozilla Suite, SeaMonkey and other Mozilla-based applications to store settings.

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    Solved

    http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/foru...ts-to-default/
    here is the answer for my problem.
    if something was found and cleaned then browser settings will be left alone.
    so if nothing has been found just leave the program and done clean.

    About the finish- problem: I could imagine when the log-window is highlighted scan has finished.
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    Thumbs up

    Good to hear the problem's been resolved. Thanks for letting us know.

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    I see now a growing bar. AND: most important. Newer version of Ccleaner is deleting Firefox or all browser-preferences. No more troubles with unwanted Firefox-tabs.
    I have got explanations in bleepingcomputer-forum.
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    Know now why i didnt see adwcleaner running

    Because i left looking at adwcleaner after starting i couldnt see the bar after a should bit of time.
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    About th only thing I have seen stop Adwcleaner was a messed up .dll and to fix the problem took a clean install as it was a protected .dll. Well my experience the other day.

    Run ESET online and boy, was that computer messed up.

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    Wehn nothing had been found, only browser preferences shown by adwcleaner better leave it alone. maybe running ccleaner beforehand since its cleaning preferences. this at least i have seen in normal mode.
    recently i had troubles understanding the removing of windows components. I ended up in restoring the image since outlook and other important things were gone. will come back and open a new tread. maybe leave it alone.
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    Adwcleaner is a mess-or the combination with Winxp-or my naivité

    Ran adwcleaner. Still dont know when its finished. showed registry entries. didnt show details, only security firewall. log showed it was spybot.
    Afterwards network setting was messed up. no internet anymore.......
    System restore did not help.
    will now remove/reinstall when network is ok, remove also spybot and most probably kick out adwcleaner.
    will the adwcleaner entries -i mean the categories-shown all at the end or one after eachother? maybe must go to bleepingcomputer-forum again. have a thread there.
    btw: could not repair network-settings also not with admin-rights. maybe i must use admin-account. what next?
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    Admin account is what I use and I have no idea what mods you have done to XP to cause those problems.

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    SOLVED-reinstalled network-driver-Firefox also properly working without reset

    After running adwcleaner in admin-account i saw spybot-findings and thats what the log is also telling and cleaned/deleted the findings. in c:\adwcleaner i found a backup of the browser(Firefox)-profiles.
    Afterwards network/internet was blocked. repair did not help. so i removed and reinstalled the driver. working again!
    2. for the original problem(multiple ff-instances-addonsites plus two mozilla-sited openend): it reappeared but i didnt see browser entries. they must have shown up in the log. so the removal or whatever blocking msut have ben done in backgroup. copied back the first most actual profiles(there were multiples with the same time-setting). it will carry the actual date. name unchanged. Firefox fully working. In my opinion this is a bug.
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    Still the same problems-no matter what was deleted

    Quote Originally Posted by europanorama View Post
    Adwcleaner is clearly the cause of multiple tabs being opened in firefox incl. 2x firefox itself. google-start-site removed and download-folder default now.
    have now deactivated respective addons. we will see next time. no solution found.
    i dont see an option to deny the cleaning of firefox. its eighter cleaning or not cleaning at all. And its a big mess that this program does not indicate when finished.
    last time only a nvidia-setting was found and deleted and these multiple-firefox-tabs are opening again. only FF-reset can cure or maybe system-restore.
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