Download AdwCleaner 6.040

ToolsLib, nowadays part of Malwarebytes, released version 6.040 of AdwCleaner. This program aims to remove malware, such as toolbars added to web browsers and so-called hijackers, which modify the homepage and search engine, among other things. Support is available for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. After the scan has been performed, you can decide for yourself what needs to be removed. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

New

• Performance improvements during scan initialization

Updated

• Remove unnecessary checks
• Improve MyWebSearch detection
• Major improvements in translation coverage
• Improve translation handling
• Improve SMI key restoration
• Internal metrics system more robust
• Major database update (2016-12-02)

Fixed

• Crash with registry keys deletion
• Tasks not always logged
• Usernames FP
• Fix report layout issues