Q: what is advanced mac cleaner

EL Capitan

Since your Mac computer appears to be new enough to run the already suggested product

that in a previous entry was successful to alleviate the same problem you stated, and the

Mac is not a PowerPC build (pre-2006) you could get the adwaremedic free product & run it

from this link: http://www.adwaremedic.com/index.php

Appears the host(s) did not heed my suggestion to move this thread to the Intel Mac area

where most of the hardware involved would seem to be a good match. The older OS X on

the earlier model Macs would not be able to run the adware medic product, since those

would use nothing newer than Leopard 10.5.8 and could not use it. Also, those old Macs

running pre-10.6 rarely get an adware infection; especially if safe browsing techniques are

used and if one polices there browser extensions. And avoids third-party downloads that

may hitch a ride on other software that sometimes needs no Admin password to install if

the browser is set to automatically download or install add-on or extensions; or if the item

(such as 'free download' of normally retail pay-to-get applications) is a fake, and the user

chooses to bittorrent or other sites to get bad copies of altered software to use, instead of

going to the maker's own web site and obtaining the correct official product.

See the earlier post by Thomas R. where a link to manual removal or discovery of what the

ailment involved may be; consider info from http://www.thesafemac.com/tech-guides/

There are manual ways to find and remove odd things that users get by accident or through

web site browsing and clicking on items that can automatically download to affect your Mac.

Some utilities are helpful in the hands of a knowledgeable user diagnostic, but there are

many that are junk and propose to solve an issue while messing up your OS X. Some are

such poorly made things (by design, probably) that you end up thinking you need to call

some bogus 800# and give them a credit card number, or let strangers get into your Mac.

Those should be transparent, & most authority-shy citizens should know how to self-police.

Since the most recent OS X is involved and/or others that do not run on the older PowerPC

G3/G4/G5 Mac hardware, this thread should (have) be(en) moved to a Intel-mac section...

So maybe another suggestion to the discussion Host may be helpful in that regard. I tried.

Good luck!

I use the product you recommended and it works. It catches the adware that Kaspersky doesn't, but this file keeps showing up:

/Library/Application Support/amc/

None of the others. What do you recommend I do or what I should investigate on why I remove it and it goes away and then it comes back? Great detail and awesome software. Thanks in advance.

Thanks so very much.  Spot on answer that worked.

So this entire thread has nothing to do with the location of its accidental

posting status; since the topic device is not vintage pre-2006 PPC iMac.

If following visitors here do not have a PowerPC (IBM/Motorola/Apple CPU)

model vintage/obsolete iMac G3/G4/G5 they should post in the correct place.

intel-based iMac = link to Apple iMac_Intel discussions community

Maybe next time the hosts won't ignore a relocation request.

Good luck!

its malware from india. pcvarkr

It appears this little gem was able to bypass the password.

Not possible, it had to be one of you.

the solution worked , thank you!