Cannot get rid of Optimize.exe

[elij]

I have a virus that Avast cannot get rid of it.

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.

Can somebody help?

Thanks,
Elij

[Lisandro]

I have a virus that Avast cannot get rid of it.

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.

Can somebody help?

Thanks,
Elij

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?  

[Lisandro]

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.

Anyway, it's not a thing to work too much.  

[elij]

I have a virus that Avast cannot get rid of it.

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.

Can somebody help?

Thanks,
Elij

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?  

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).

Thanks anyway!

Elij

[sas8n]

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

[.: Mac :.]

optimize.exe sounds like some form of spyware. that would explain how spybot killed it and not avast  

[techie101]

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?[/color]

techie

[Lisandro]

Has anyone used Adaware to remove the Optimize.exe trojan?[/color]

Sorry, I'm clean, I never had optimize trojan in my system  

[.: Mac :.]

spybot detected it from my PC. I have never had adaware detect anything but tracking cookies on my computer. spybot gets all the juicy stuff first

[techie101]

Mac,

In general, Spybot is more versatile.  Adaware concentrates on the more frequent spyware which happen to be mostly tracking cookies.

I use both and on some scans, Adaware found things that Spybot did not!

Now, this is in addition to having both SpywareBlaster and SpywareGuard running!  You figure.

Techie

[.: Mac :.]

yes i get a TON of tracking cookies. And i ALSO have spyware blaster and guard

[Max M.Wachtel III]

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)

[.: Mac :.]

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

[elij]

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.

Elij

[Max M.Wachtel III]

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!!!!