A few days back, Avast detected an infection when I was browsing the net using Safari. It was a trojan and it was in the cache file of safari. It was duplicating the file cache.db as cache.db_journal. After I got the notification, I could not do anything. I did not get an option to delete the file or repair it. So i tried scanning the folder in question, but avast was unable to scan the folder. Since I remembered the file name, I located it and deleted the file. After that I re-installed avast and everything seemed fine. It was working without any issue, and subsequent scans all turned up clean.
Yesterday as i was browsing using safari again, I got a warning msg saying - internal error, please open avast or check system logs. At first nothing happened, I could not check any logs or i did not get any notification, today the same error occurred, but this time when i opened avast, it said the application needed to be repaired and i had to authorize it. Once it was repaired and updated it was working as usual, or so i thought. I restarted my mac and sure enough I get the same error again and again.
I tried reinstalling again, but I get the same error. I am afraid that my mac has become infected and is causing the antivirus to malfunction
My mac runs on snow leopard and i have not installed windows.
Can somebody please, suggest the necessary course of action that i have to take, any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
Update -
Looks like a few others are also facing the same issue, hope its fixed soon. Can anyone tell me about the trojan I found ???
I have been using avast since 2004 first on my windows PC and now on my macbook pro since 2010 and would love to continue using avast.