I just discovered this on my machine; apparently, no harm done and it was easy to remove.
The question it: why wasn’t this detected until I did a scan on the drive?
It was running as a backround task – and, using msconfig, I saw that it loaded automatically at startup. Shouldn’t avast! recognized this? I wonder how long it has been running…
Right, I see. The ‘Ad-aware’ did help me clean things up. Before I used it, though, I scanned the windows area on the drive – and a ‘.dll’ file had a virus. That file was used by this adware & had a similar name, so I assume it was accessed frequently but not detected?
Well, you’ll need to wait for more experienced users…
I won’t expect that all ad-aware will be detected by avast (in fact, few of them could be). It could be accessed frequently or not. Avast would detect it at the first time if it was able to (and your avast configurations set so)