Remove Optserve. Description and removal instructions

Title: Optserve
Type: Adware	Severity scale: (35 / 100)

Optserve is a an adware program that downloads from the Internet and displays commercial pop-up advertisements. It also collects some system information, records web browser history and transfers all this data to its home server. Optserve automatically runs on every Windows startup.

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Related files: lp.exe, optserve.exe, lp.dll, optserve.dll

Optserve properties:
• Shows commercial adverts
• Connects itself to the internet
• Hides from the user
• Stays resident in background

Automatic Optserve removal:

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Optserve manual removal:

Kill processes:
lp.exe, optserve.exe

HELP:
how to kill malicious processes

Delete registry values:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\LP
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\optserve

HELP:
how to remove registry entries

Delete files:
lp.exe, optserve.exe, lp.dll, optserve.dll

HELP:
how to remove harmful files

Misc:
Optserve files reside in default system directory, which is one of the following: C:\WINDOWS\System, C:\WINDOWS\System32, C:\WINNT\System32.

Other programs to remove Optserve:

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• Windows Defender - Review - Download

Information added: 03/11/06
Information updated: 21/08/09

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Comments from visitors:

1. by . 2009-08-21 12:08:42

THANK YOU FOR THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Avast! kept popping up with this little stinker ever couple of minutes.. this saved me from having to reformat!