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tbh, this is not a "piece of mind"-setting in Ad-watch, it's more a useless function... When you get the notice from Ad-watch, the "damage" is already done!!!!
The change is performed when MSN Messenger closes. And that is the time when it should be detected. Not when Windows starts up the next time, because by then the program from that run-key value is already started up. Imagine if this is a real adware/spyware program!
So, this detecting routine is very dodgy and rather useless.
This is not true about ad-watch in the complete conversation (though the conversation dates back from June 2004 while it is now June 2006.
I also have this 'issue' with ad-watch (build 399 with ad-aware SE buil 1.06r1). Ad-watch DOES warn me about this registry change when I close msn messneger and not with windows startup. Hence, it warns at the correct moment - not dodgy at all.
Now to get rid of this - indeed anoying - warning, you can use the rule editor option from ad-watch:
* Open ad-watch
* Goto 'Tools > Rule Editor > New Rule'
* Enter a name for the rule (eg 'msn background'
* Enable the 'Ignore events if key matchec...' and enter the key from the warning (Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run)
* Enable 'And value matches' and enter the value from the warning (msnmsgr)
* Click 'Exact match' then 'Add Rule'
From now on the warning is ignored.
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