The following instructions have been created to help you to get rid of "Vundo.Bankfraud" manually.
Use this guide at your own risk; software should usually be better suited to remove malware, since it is able to look deeper.
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Threat Details:
Categories:
Autorun:
Please use Spybot-S&D, RunAlyzer or msconfig.exe to remove the following autorun entries.
Please use Windows Explorer or another file manager of your choice to locate and delete these files.
You will have to use a global search for files without a name specified. Be extra careful, because just the name might not be enough to identify files!
Important: There are more files that cannot be safely described in simple words. Please use Spybot-S&D to remove them.
Registry:
You can use regedit.exe (included in Windows) to locate and delete these registry entries.
Final Words:
If neither Spybot-S&D nor self help did resolve the issue or you would prefer one on one help,
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.
Threat Details:
Categories:
- trojan
The emailtext is a link to a fraud bankaccountsite,
user is asked to enter accountinformation.
also executables are installed, which add themselves to the systemstart and connect to IRC-Servers, probably making the host a zombie and receiving instructions from the IRC Network.
Supposed Functionality: user is asked to enter accountinformation.
also executables are installed, which add themselves to the systemstart and connect to IRC-Servers, probably making the host a zombie and receiving instructions from the IRC Network.
This Vundo variant comes with an email looking like it came from a bank asking the user to verify his/her useraccount.
Removal Instructions:
Autorun:
Please use Spybot-S&D, RunAlyzer or msconfig.exe to remove the following autorun entries.
- Entries named "diskchk" and pointing to "diskmon32.exe".
Please use Windows Explorer or another file manager of your choice to locate and delete these files.
- A file with an unknown location named "tcphard.dll".
- A file with an unknown location named "WinGenerics.dll".
- A file with an unknown location named "ace.dll".
- A file with an unknown location named "tsafproc.exe".
- A file with an unknown location named "diskmon32.exe".
- The file at "<$SYSDIR>\diskmon32.exe".
You will have to use a global search for files without a name specified. Be extra careful, because just the name might not be enough to identify files!
Important: There are more files that cannot be safely described in simple words. Please use Spybot-S&D to remove them.
Registry:
You can use regedit.exe (included in Windows) to locate and delete these registry entries.
- Delete the registry value "diskchk" at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices\".
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 before requesting assistance,
- Then start your own thread in the Malware Removal Forum where a volunteer analyst will advise you as soon as available.