ccleaner seems to be hung on Windows system log files

[bmclachlan]

CCleaner seems to be hung up on Windows system log files. It is showing 44% completed but keeps repeating the same log file (MPcmdrun.log) over and over. I would hate to discontinue this process because CCleaner has been running for over 24 hours to delete approximately 20,000,000 temporary Internet files created through a very bad infection by The Trojan zero access.

 

Is there anything I can do without disrupting process to get CCleaner to ignore the system log files for the time being?

[Alan_B]

You are attacking what appears to be an extremely useful file related to fighting an infection.

Is it possible that MPcmdrun.EXE is still active and has locked its log file ?

http://my.safaribook...sks/id286751121

 

Just stop CCleaner.

Whatever has been deleted will not reappear because you stop CCleaner.

 

I strongly suggest that you cancel the tick against Windows Log files under the heading "System"

You can still clean the temporary Internet files under heading "Internet Explorer"

[bmclachlan]

thanks. Actually the filename that cCleaner was reporting was MpCMDrun.log. I have now stopped cCleaner and it is starting to delete the files that it has identified up to this point. Once this process finishes, I will run cCleaner again without it trying to identify log files.

[Alan_B]

Yes, the file under attack was MpCMDrun.LOG,

but it would have been created by MpCMDrun.EXE which would probably have been used to fight the trojan or cleanup / monitor / observe in or after the removal of the trojan.