Staff jboursier Posted November 19, 2019 Staff ID:1346147 Share Posted November 19, 2019 (edited) Hello, We are pleased to share a preview of the 8th major release of AdwCleaner! This version has been slowly worked on for a year now, and very actively for a few weeks and provides major improvements: We have upgraded our toolchain to a more modern suite in order to benefit from security improvements, various new compiler optimizations and to use new C++ features to get a cleaner and more efficient code. Although this change is mostly invisible, it has been a critical change to support our future work and to greatly reduce the technical debt. We moved to Qt 5.13 branch which is the latest version to date, and which provides major improvements for native integrations We introduced again a working Chrome scan and remediation module that allows AdwCleaner to scan and clean Chrome in a fully comprehensive manner. Related, we temporarily removed the support for Firefox scanning and cleaning and we will introduce a fully new module to provide a much better support in the version 8.0.1 early December. We have been fixing numerous bugs in the remediation and quarantine logic. This part is now much more robust that it was before. Although we have not officially supported Windows Vista or Windows XP for a few years now, we got reports of successful usage by various users on both Windows versions. We know for sure that AdwCleaner 8 and onward will no longer work on these platforms. A support page will be posted with a link to AdwCleaner 7.4.2 which is the last release to run on those versions. There is no changes to the UI or no new features as to speak. Most of the significant changes are happening under the hood, but that doesn't make them less critical and major to provide performances and stability again as we are aware it has been lagging for the past months. If everything goes well, we expect to release AdwCleaner 8th next Tuesday, and the 8.0.1 a few weeks later as we are now finally back on the "one release every 3 to 4 weeks schedule" to include your feedbacks more quickly (more on that shortly) and to overall improve AdwCleaner's quality. The expected changelog is as below: ## v8 [26/11/2019] ### Changes - Following the release of MB4, the in-app installer now installs Malwarebytes 4. - Always download the very latest Malwarebytes build - Update Qt to 5.13 branch - Upgrade the build toolchain to Visual Studio 2017 - Update OpenSSL - No longer force the generation of the debug logfile - Support again the very latest versions of the Chrome Browser and allow for proper remediation - Temporarily disable Firefox scanning and remediation - will be added back in the upcoming 8.0.1 release - Update translations - Update definitions to 2019.11.20.1 - Completely drop support for Windows XP and Vista. Refer to https://links.malwarebytes.com/support/adwcleaner_windows_compatibility ### Bugfixes - Crash when the UI is displayed in Arabic - Make the uninstallation process more robust and less likely to leave traces behind - Make the quarantine process more stable and less susceptible to corruption To download AdwCleaner 8 beta, click here. Please share with us your feedback! Edited November 22, 2019 by jboursier Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
1PW Posted November 20, 2019 ID:1346183 Share Posted November 20, 2019 Hello @jboursier: The scan time and number of objects scanned are still about the same. Thank you to the team for the improvements! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted November 20, 2019 Root Admin ID:1346197 Share Posted November 20, 2019 The following items were not Preinstalled with Windows 10 - I manually downloaded the software and installed it to transfer one of my Android phones to another one. # ------------------------------- # Malwarebytes AdwCleaner 8.0.0.0 # ------------------------------- # Build: 11-12-2019 # Database: 2019-11-19.3 (Cloud) # Support: https://www.malwarebytes.com/support # # ------------------------------- # Mode: Scan # ------------------------------- # Start: 11-19-2019 # Duration: 00:00:10 # OS: Windows 10 Pro # Scanned: 35226 # Detected: 7 ***** [ Services ] ***** No malicious services found. ***** [ Folders ] ***** No malicious folders found. ***** [ Files ] ***** No malicious files found. ***** [ DLL ] ***** No malicious DLLs found. ***** [ WMI ] ***** No malicious WMI found. ***** [ Shortcuts ] ***** No malicious shortcuts found. ***** [ Tasks ] ***** No malicious tasks found. ***** [ Registry ] ***** No malicious registry entries found. ***** [ Chromium (and derivatives) ] ***** No malicious Chromium entries found. ***** [ Chromium URLs ] ***** No malicious Chromium URLs found. ***** [ Firefox (and derivatives) ] ***** No malicious Firefox entries found. ***** [ Firefox URLs ] ***** No malicious Firefox URLs found. ***** [ Preinstalled Software ] ***** Preinstalled.SamsungSmartSwitch File C:\Users\Public\Desktop\Smart Switch.lnk Preinstalled.SamsungSmartSwitch File C:\Users\pc\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\Smart Switch.lnk Preinstalled.SamsungSmartSwitch Folder C:\Program Files (x86)\SAMSUNG\SMART SWITCH PC Preinstalled.SamsungSmartSwitch Folder C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\SAMSUNG\SMART SWITCH PC Preinstalled.SamsungSmartSwitch Folder C:\Users\pc\AppData\Roaming\SAMSUNG\SMART SWITCH PC Preinstalled.SamsungSmartSwitch Registry HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\InstallShield_{74FA5314-85C8-4E2A-907D-D9ECCCB770A7} Preinstalled.SamsungSmartSwitch Registry HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{74FA5314-85C8-4E2A-907D-D9ECCCB770A7} ########## EOF - C:\AdwCleaner\Logs\AdwCleaner[S00].txt ########## Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre75 Posted November 21, 2019 ID:1346375 Share Posted November 21, 2019 Tested and no problems. Took about same time. AdwCleaner[S76].txt Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ciff7 Posted November 21, 2019 ID:1346409 Share Posted November 21, 2019 Tested, ran fine, scan was under a minute. AdwCleaner[C00].txt Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurice Naggar Posted November 21, 2019 ID:1346517 Share Posted November 21, 2019 Scan time was fairly fast. I do believe that the flagging & removal of Google translate on Chrome is an F/P AdwCleaner[C06].txt Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bscans Posted November 21, 2019 ID:1346531 Share Posted November 21, 2019 Very quick - agree with previous poster - Google Translate is an FP Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff jboursier Posted November 23, 2019 Author Staff ID:1346849 Share Posted November 23, 2019 Thank you all, I really appreciate your reviews and feedbacks! @bscans @Maurice Naggar Re FP - it will be fixed indeed. It looks like Tuesday will be a go 👍 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurice Naggar Posted November 23, 2019 ID:1346852 Share Posted November 23, 2019 Bonsoir Jérôme. Merci Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jruiz Posted November 24, 2019 ID:1347107 Share Posted November 24, 2019 Hello, @jboursier: Tested #AdwCleaner 8 and works correctly. There are translation errors in the Spanish language. I could send the strings to correct with their correct translation. Thanks and best regards. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff jboursier Posted November 25, 2019 Author Staff ID:1347299 Share Posted November 25, 2019 Hello, Thanks! Yes, numerous translations need some love. We'll do a new pass for the next release early December (8.0.1) to fix those issues. Feel free to PM me if you have those fixes in the meantime! Thank you, Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
yamaci17 Posted November 26, 2019 ID:1347451 Share Posted November 26, 2019 Am I in trouble? https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-translate/aapbdbdomjkkjkaonfhkkikfgjllcleb This is the official Google extension however. The other one, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/downloader-for-instagram/olkpikmlhoaojbbmmpejnimiglejmboe Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff jboursier Posted November 26, 2019 Author Staff ID:1347502 Share Posted November 26, 2019 Thanks, it has been fixed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff jboursier Posted November 26, 2019 Author Staff ID:1347507 Share Posted November 26, 2019 Closing, AdwCleaner 8 has been released: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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