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    Default banker.abj spy bot crashes?

    Hello everyone,

    firstly:
    the contact page, enter the word DOES field not work.

    Ok so I'm hoping that some of you guys will be able to help me out.

    I did a scan with spybot version 1.5 and it found a win32 trojan called banker.abj. Then Spybot hung after producing a mass of errors. Too fast to for me to read them.

    So I updated to 1.6 and did the scan again. Right at the end of the scan same thing only faster and CRASH!! the whole PC went down.

    I rebooted and here I am.

    Any suggestions folks?

    windows XP, avast antivius.

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    did the scan in safe mode...nothing found no crash.
    restarted: switched off my antivirus ( avast ) and once more spybot scanned
    and found nothing, and did not crash.

    restarted: antivirus on: bingo large list of error quickly scrolling past and the PC crashes.

    So do I have and infection?
    Who knows?
    Is this a bug?
    Is it a compatability problem?

    answers on a postcard please

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    What version Of Avast! Are you using? The Latest is 4.8.1227.
    If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

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    There doesn't seem to be any incompatibility issues with avast! and Spybot-SD.

    Describe the list of "errors" that were rolling past the screen. Was it on Spybot's window? What is your OS?

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    As mentioned above my OS is windows XP.
    avast is 4.8 version.

    I'm gonna uninstall spybot 1.6 and see if I can get a screenshot of the errors
    with 1.5.

    I'll post the error image here if I can catch it in time.

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    ok, I did an Avast program update and run spybot 1.6 again.
    This time it found zero problems and completed the scan without crashing or hanging.

    I can only assume that;
    when I installed 1.6 and immunized my system this got rid of the trojan, is this possible?

    and by the look of some of the error messages that I was able to glance at
    there were invalid pointer errors and some .dll errors.

    maybe Avast program or .dll files had gotten corrupted?

    anyone have any ideas?...Anyway If I can trust Spybot 1
    .6 & I think I can because I've been using it for a few years now, my system is clean...??

    thanks for the input folks.

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    Sorry painofthepc, I forgot to take a look at your OS. Thanks for reminding me .

    Technically, I can't be sure how upgrading may have removed the "trojan"... It could be a possible false positive.

    Well, I compared your most recent post to the your first post in this thread:
    -I'm assuming everything is well, because Spybot-SD 1.6.0.30 does not crash during a scan anymore (assuming you ran a scan with avast! on).
    -The 'banker.abj' trojan could be a false positive.
    -Can you run a scan if you have the time with avast! to see if it detects anything?
    -For the .dll and pointer errors, it is beyond my knowledge of what is happening , however is it gone?

    You can trust Spybot-Search&Destroy : ).

    Any other questions?

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    thanks, just did my weekly scan and it's definitely gone..who knows how? ;-).. updating Avast seemed to do the trick.

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    painofthepc:

    Quote Originally Posted by painofthepc View Post
    ... the contact page, enter the word DOES field not work.
    This was just written a few days ago:

    Getting an answer is one thing, learning is another.


    Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition running on a 2.40GHz IntelŪ PentiumŪ 4 Processor with 512 MB of RAM and a 533 MHz System Bus.

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    painofthepc - the invalid pointer errors and .dll errors would indeed indicate a corrupted program was causing your problem. So seeing as a reinstall of Avast cured the fault the best bet would be that it was Avast that was behind the OS errors you were getting.

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