Friday
2008-11-29, 14:53
The following instructions have been created to help you to get rid of "Banload.ScrTaskList" manually.
Use this guide at your own risk; software should usually be better suited to remove malware, since it is able to look deeper.
If this guide was helpful to you, please consider donating towards this site (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=donate).
Threat Details:
Categories:
trojan
Description:
This trojan horse pretends to be a picture or a screensaver. When executed it runs in background, connects to malicious websites in background and downloads a tasklist32.exe disguised as a picture. This Tasklist32.exe is added twice to system start, it also uses AdminSystem.AOSMTP as smtp engine to connect via smtp port 25 to the internet.
Supposed Functionality:
supposed to be a screensaver or picture
Removal Instructions:
Autorun:
Please use Spybot-S&D (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=spybotsd), RunAlyzer (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=runalyzer) or msconfig.exe to remove the following autorun entries.
Entries named "TaskList" and pointing to "?<$SYSDIR>\tasklist32.exe?".
Entries named "WinDLLProcessor" and pointing to "?<$SYSDIR>\tasklist32.exe?".
Files:
Important: There are more files that cannot be safely described in simple words. Please use Spybot-S&D (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=spybotsd) to remove them.
Final Words:
If neither Spybot-S&D nor self help did resolve the issue or you would prefer one on one help,
Please read these instructions (http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=288) before requesting assistance,
Then start your own thread in the Malware Removal Forum (http://forums.spybot.info/forumdisplay.php?f=22) where a volunteer analyst will advise you as soon as available.
Use this guide at your own risk; software should usually be better suited to remove malware, since it is able to look deeper.
If this guide was helpful to you, please consider donating towards this site (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=donate).
Threat Details:
Categories:
trojan
Description:
This trojan horse pretends to be a picture or a screensaver. When executed it runs in background, connects to malicious websites in background and downloads a tasklist32.exe disguised as a picture. This Tasklist32.exe is added twice to system start, it also uses AdminSystem.AOSMTP as smtp engine to connect via smtp port 25 to the internet.
Supposed Functionality:
supposed to be a screensaver or picture
Removal Instructions:
Autorun:
Please use Spybot-S&D (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=spybotsd), RunAlyzer (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=runalyzer) or msconfig.exe to remove the following autorun entries.
Entries named "TaskList" and pointing to "?<$SYSDIR>\tasklist32.exe?".
Entries named "WinDLLProcessor" and pointing to "?<$SYSDIR>\tasklist32.exe?".
Files:
Important: There are more files that cannot be safely described in simple words. Please use Spybot-S&D (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=spybotsd) to remove them.
Final Words:
If neither Spybot-S&D nor self help did resolve the issue or you would prefer one on one help,
Please read these instructions (http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=288) before requesting assistance,
Then start your own thread in the Malware Removal Forum (http://forums.spybot.info/forumdisplay.php?f=22) where a volunteer analyst will advise you as soon as available.