Hello together, I've read this here and like to tell you:
If you use the Ad-Watch Monitore from Lavasofts Ad-Aware (the online scanner from Ad-Aware) and you do a scan with Spybot:
Do not forget to turn off the Ad-Watch Program BEFORE you click the "Fix Problems" Button in Spybot. Or you have to turn off the Automatic-Option from Ad-Watch or the following will happen:
If you let Ad-Watch run (and Spybot has found spys on your computer) Ad-Watch will block any change that Spybot will do at the Windows Registry to remove the spys.
Spybot can NOT remove any Spyware if the Ad-Watch Module is still running and/or active.
Spybot will give out the message that it has removed the spys, but it did not, they are still there, because Ad-Watch has blocked the changes from Spybot.
You can also shut down this Automatic-Option in Ad-Watch, then a message from Ad Watch will pop up on the screen and the program will ask you for agreement with the action Spybot want to do in the registry or not.
In the opposite, Spybot does not block any action Ad-Aware will do in the registry, if Ad-Aware has found any Spys.
Greetings,
Ronny