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Banker.Fox.A Description
Banker.Fox.A is the name of a fake computer threat often used by the rogueware called Spyware Protect 2009. Banker.Fox.A is listed as a Trojan infection on a victim’s computer in order to scare the victim into thinking that his/her computer is infested with malware. Following the fake malware detection the victim will be coerced into purchasing the “full” version of Spyware Protect 2009. Users should avoid purchasing security software that detects Banker.Fox.A as a security threat.
Type: Fake Warning Messages
How Can You Detect Banker.Fox.A?
Banker.Fox.A Technical Report
As new Banker.Fox.A details are reported by our customers and findings from our Threat Research Center, we will update this section.
Fake message for Banker.Fox.A:
The following fake error message(s) appears for Banker.Fox.A:
Infiltration Alert
Your computer is being attacked by an Internet Virus. It could be a password-stealing attack, a Trojan – dropper or similar.
Threat: BankerFox.A
Do you want to block this attack?
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By GoldSparrow in
February 28th, 2010 at 2:23 am
…finally I can access the net (at least!) through Firefox…
I wasted 5 hours to “battle” the Banker.Fox.A!
Be aware that right now is posting as “Antivirus Soft”’
(somewhere in England!) and IT WILL NOT allow
you or your software to do anything (Your software
package is corrupted”, “The package is broken” etc.
You are not able to open anything, NOTHING! No
Task Manager, no Word, Excel, Note pad, Outlook…
Nothing that can be used to ad some notes. You have
to reboot many times and be as fast as you can:
you have less than a minute to try to find the culprit
(I search by time/hour) and “Shift+Delete”-it!
Thanks for your posting!
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July 1st, 2010 at 8:51 pm
Thank you for this article…we got Banker Fox when I clicked on a link on the front page of Digg.com. So Do NOT use DIGG.com! I informed their support people that we got a virus, and they didn’t even seem the least bit concerned.
It took us about 2 hours to straighten out our computer…everything was completely locked.
The way we fixed it was we went into SafeMode, and restored the computer settings to a different time, several days before. Thankfully, that fixed it.
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