Hi, I’ve just read the thread posted by tripod2go about the problem he has had with Banload-MF.
I have had a similar problem. Avast found this possible trojan in my Epson printer files, and in my system restore files. The system restore file may have been new, as I just deleted all my old restore points last week, but the Epson files have been on my computer for over a year. I also use AVG Free with the “resident shield” turned off. It found nothing when I did a backup scan.
I have been trying out Ewido for almost two weeks, and it found nothing the night before when I scanned prior to shut down. I did not download anything the following day before the scan with Avast, except new update files for Avast and AVG Free.
I followed the recommended action and put the two suspect files in the virus chest. Oddly, three dll files were also put in the chest for some reason. Unless they belong there, and were there already?
I tried to email the suspect files to Avast, but I don’t know if they got through okay, as Thunderbird reported that the message was sent “with errors”. ???
Since trying to send them, I have read here that you’re supposed to use some sort of special proceedure, and somehow “password” the files or the message or whatever. (I will need a step by step explanation of that proceedure, as it all sounds like double-talk to me. ??? ??? )
But the main problem I am now experiencing is that Ewido no longer functions properly. It will do a quick scan ok, although that has never found anything, but it will no longer do a proper thorough scan. It will find the same old 7 tracking cookies in Firefox every time, but it won’t clean them any more, and then Ewido will suddenly quit back to the desktop at 66% completion.
How the heck could moving 2 possilbly infected files, and 3 dll files permantently break Ewido? I have uninstalled and reinstalled Ewido three times, the last on my other hard drive, but it just does not run properly any more.
I need to know what is going on, and if I really got infected or not. My gods-cursed bank is trying to force me to do my banking over the internet by charging impossible fees for using a pass book, and I am afraid to do that because a trojan may have gotten onto my computer despite my careful surfing and downloading habits. :-\