win32.banker: Spybot found it, killed it, it came back, Suddenly Disappeared

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by jujubee, Dec 31, 2009.

  1. jujubee

    jujubee Private E-2

    Hello,

    Last night I ran spybot and discovered a trojan called win32.banker. I don't remember what the letters were that came after that. So Spybot supposedly fixed the problem. I ran it again and it still showed up. I tried a couple more times and it still showed up.

    This morning, my laptop was acting very slow and choppy upon startup. Out of nowhere a window opened that said windows command (it was black with grey letters) and then it quickly closed and disappeared. I ran spybot again and clicked on "fix selected problems".

    I tried to search online to see how to get rid of it. One website suggested Spyware Doctor-- so I downloaded it and installed it. It found 3 main problem with 15 infections, but it wouldn't get rid of the problems unless I bought it. So I uninstalled it. I rebooted my laptop.

    However, when I ran spybot again, it said my pc was clean. I ran SuperAntiSpyware and it couldn't find anything. I ran Malwarebytes and it couldn't find anything. I even ran McAfee and it couldn't find anything.


    So does that mean it's magically gone? Everything seems to be running fine...Can it suddenly go into hiding so that spybot wouldn't be able to detect it? Now I'm too paranoid to check my email or bank statements.


    Thank you so much for your help!
     
  2. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    We cannot tell you if you are clean or not unless you run our cleaning procedure and attach the logs we request. We have no idea whether Spybot was finding anything valid or not. We would need to see exact what/where it was finding it. You cannot rely on just Spybot anymore. It does not have the ability to properly detect and remove the forms of malware that have come out over the last couple years which is why it is not part of our cleaning process anymore. Simply put, it became to ineffective.
     

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