How to Hide Webwatcher From Spyware Checks

Anti-malware products such as Spybot: Search & Destroy, Ad-Aware or Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware can scan your computer and remove infections from spyware and other malicious software. Occasionally, these programs may return a false positive and the infections list will include a legitimate entry such as Webwatcher, a program that administrators install to monitor computer usage and keystrokes. You can instruct your anti-spyware program to ignore entries during future scans so that other users do not detect Webwatcher.

Instructions

Spybot

1. Launch Spybot on your computer and click the "Check for Problems" button to perform a scan.

2. Locate the Webwatcher entry after the program has finished scanning and right-click it to open a context menu.

3. Click the option to "Exclude this product from further searches."

Ad-Aware

1. Run Ad-Aware on your computer.

2. Click "Scan Now" to perform a scan. Allow the scan to complete.

3. Click the Webwatcher entry and choose "Add to Ignore" to instruct the program to ignore this entry in the future.

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware

1. Launch Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware on your computer.

2. Choose the option to perform a full, custom or flash scan and click "Scan."

3. Click with your mouse to place a check mark in the box next to the Webwatcher entry and click the "Ignore" button.

References

• Spyobt: How to exclude products from the search
• Lavasoft: Ad-Aware® 2008 User Manual
• Malwarebytes
• Bleeping Computer: How to use Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware to scan and remove malware from your computer
• WebWatcher