Getting rid of Trovi adware – Apple Community

The software you mentioned works. In addition to that I had to do the following.

– Remove some weird looking programs in /Library directory (they have names like tasard)

– Stop the processes corresponding to these programs in Activity Monitor

Until you remove these programs manually, (and you will need to be root to do that). You can sudo t root, you will not be able to fix the problems. I had to go into the browser a couple of times and reset them, and delete all the caches as well as remove the search engine for Trovi.

Here is a snippet of what cr*p I see in the watch.log file in /Library that really alerted me about a bunch of daemons that were constantly running. I have changed the User to xxxxx for purpose of discreteness. Notice how it hits a website and tries to download and unzip a gz file. This is definitely a virus. On some sites they have said this is not a virus. This website should be shut down (trovi.com) and the people need to be arrested and put in jail. I spent an upwards of 6 hours fixing this problem.

debug(): Safari new version url error

debug(): Safari’s homepage not found. Reinstall.

Name tasard User xxxxx Browsers Trovi__Chrome-Succeed __Firefox-Succeed __Safari-Failed-http://www.trovi.com/?n=PP55de9d4bd4464c22-0-OM-US&searchsource=55&UM=8&gd=SY100 0250 is not registered

Log-“http://t.trkitok.com/track/slog?mid=C27924BC-A736-5ECF-9D81-8F7542464F28&log=Dat a replaced_Name tasard User xxxxx Browsers Trovi__Chrome-Succeed __Firefox-Succeed __Safari-Failed-http://www.trovi.com/?n=PP55de9d4bd4464c22-0-OM-US&searchsource=55&UM=8&gd=SY100 0250 is not registered”

Ping-“http://t.trkitok.com/track/surl?mid=C27924BC-A736-5ECF-9D81-8F7542464F28&ht=http ://www.trovi.com/?n=PP55de9d4bd4464c22-0-OM-US&searchsource=55&UM=8&gd=SY1000250 &nt=http://www.trovi.com/?n=PP55de9d4bd4464c22-0-OM-US&searchsource=69&UM=8&gd=S Y1000250&su=http://www.trovi.com/Results.aspx?n=PP55de9d4bd4464c22-0-OM-US&searc hsource=58&UM=8&gd=SY1000250”

Watcher – Reinstalling…

Watcher – cd /Library/; tar xfz Trovi.tar.gz; rm -f Trovi.tar.gz;

Watcher – cd /Library/Trovi; ./setup.sh “http://www.trovi.com/?n=PP55de9d4bd4464c22-0-OM-US&searchsource=55&UM=8&gd=SY100 0250” “http://www.trovi.com/?n=PP55de9d4bd4464c22-0-OM-US&searchsource=69&UM=8&gd=SY100 0250” “http://www.trovi.com/Results.aspx?n=PP55de9d4bd4464c22-0-OM-US&searchsource=58&U M=8&gd=SY1000250” Trovi PP55de9d4bd4464c22-0-OM-US–C27924BC-A736-5ECF-9D81-8F7542464F28 noinit;

Checking for competitors… done.