Staff jboursier Posted February 11, 2021 Staff ID:1438030 Share Posted February 11, 2021 (edited) Hello, We silently published a beta build of AdwCleaner 8.1 last night. It has since been downloaded a few hundred times without any issues reported, so we now would like to share it to a broader audience before we move to GA. The beta version is available to download there, and we plan to release it next week as stable if no issue appears. AdwCleaner 8.1 brings parallelism in scanning operations, or said differently we rework the scan in order to make it (much much) faster. Since most of the scanning module are IO-bound (and not CPU-Bound), we now make use of multiple threads depending on what the CPU can offer us so that modules can be run in parallel when possible. This allows to make AdwCleaner's scan even faster than before, even on low-end machines. Please let us know what you feel and see by testing this beta build! Edited February 11, 2021 by jboursier Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandor Posted February 11, 2021 ID:1438057 Share Posted February 11, 2021 Hello, Good news, thanks! I've just download and run it and found some mismatches :) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff jboursier Posted February 11, 2021 Author Staff ID:1438058 Share Posted February 11, 2021 Thanks! I indeed forgot to mention that this beta doesn't yet contain the updated version number, but the GA one will :) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CliffS Posted February 13, 2021 ID:1438505 Share Posted February 13, 2021 Yeah it does use a "few more" threads😀 AdwCleaner was pretty fast before, but now zips through 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff jboursier Posted February 15, 2021 Author Staff ID:1438870 Share Posted February 15, 2021 (edited) It's now released - https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/270645-adwcleaner-81/ Thanks everyone 👍 Edited February 15, 2021 by jboursier Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hake Posted February 24, 2021 ID:1440948 Share Posted February 24, 2021 (edited) I apologise for not reporting this earlier. I suspect that mandatory ASLR is to blame for "NTLayer DLL has stopped working". Running under Windows 8.1 at least produces an error message box as just below. AdwCleaner 8.1 runs under Windows 7 with mandatory ASLR without issues. Running AdwCleaber 8.1 under Windows 10 with mandatory ASLR results in no visible effects, not even a UAC. I tried exempting the executable in PC settings->Update & Security->Windows Security->App & browser control but apart from seeing a UAC nothing else happens. I guess that the beta tests were carried out on Windows 10 and Windows 8.1 systems with default ASLR settings. I like to harden mine by making ASLR mandatory and ensuring that bottom-up ASLR is in use for maximum randomisation. Edited February 24, 2021 by hake Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff jboursier Posted March 1, 2021 Author Staff ID:1442039 Share Posted March 1, 2021 Hello @hake Sorry for the delay. I have been afk for a few days, and I just became aware of the issue. You can download AdwCleaner again to fix the issue, I swapped the correct build. Regards, Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hake Posted March 8, 2021 ID:1443243 Share Posted March 8, 2021 Thanks jboursier. The mandatory ASLR issue with AdwCleaner and Windows 8.1/Windows 10 has been resolved and now works fine. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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