Avast cannot delete it, or it deletes it but it reappears. I’ve seen in addition two files cleaned from windows area one with the name GNDKRQWEL.EXE.TMP and the other MTAHC.EXE.TMP
In the log file of Avast I’ve seen two messages with errors on the application number 1648. The message read something like:
AAVM_scanning Error: x)Aavncheck Boot Direct Ex avgcanscan real of *BOOTA failed 00000005.
Have you installed AVG before using avast? Did you uninstall it? Because: avgcanscan.
Are you using a floppy? Did you check the option ‘check the floppy on exit avast’? Because: BOOTA failed
Anyway, I’m just guessing… You need an avast! team programmer support… Can you wait a little?
Elij, I know that *BOOTA means ‘Boot Sector of Floppy A:’. These messages mean that the on-access scanner of avast! (Standard Shield) cannot scan the boot sector of a disk in the A: drive. Could be that the floppy was unreadable (unformated) or anything else.
May be the error was not related at all to the virus but the fact that I performed a thorough scan and included drive a: which had no disk.
Anyway, yesterday night I run Spybot seach and I succeed to delete the virus. I could do it only by using Spybot while startin up the computer. Avast could not deal with it but the combination of the two did it (at least today I did not get any error messages).
i have the same prob w/ optimize and yes i did at 1 time have avg, but i had a friend, who is a programmer, erase everything on my hd and i still get the optimize virus thing…maybe a magnet would do the trick and truly erase everything hmmm j.k
optimize.exe sounds like some form of spyware. that would explain how spybot killed it and not avast ;)
Give Mac a star~!
Here is the scoop on Optimize:
optimize -aka optimize.exe - Process Information
Process File: optimize or optimize.exe
Process Name: Optimize
Description: Adult content dialer that dials numbers specific to porn related sites.
Company: N/A
System Process: No
Security Risk ( Virus/Trojan/Worm/Adware/Spyware ): Yes
This little mischief maker can resend itself making it difficult to remove from your system.
Spybot does a nice job.
I have not tried Adaware against it yet.
Has anyone used Adaware to remove the Optimize.exe trojan?
hey Mac-
did you install the immunize in spybot? since I’ve installed spyware blaster and immunized, the amount of cookies has dropped. I also use ad-aware,spam fighter,and Benign( From fire trust)
Max, I have immunized my computer in spybot S&D and in spywareblaster. But its just that in my free time I rome all over the web looking at diffrent sites like powermax.com. i do google searches for Mac product reviews and read them in case the users have diffrent opinions about the products and we can let them be heard in macworld. So I accumulate a lot of cookies
Using Spybot periodically you drop significantly the cookies.
It might be redundant but one important thing to do once you download Spybot is to download also the updates. Only after downloading the updates and running it, it will catch all the bad stuff. To immunize is very recommended although some stuff such as Gator will come again and again.
lol you mean like run spybot and ad-aware every nite
(that’s what I do)
that gator is a pain in my… you’re surfin’ and all of a sudden…Hey not this again!!!