For 3 days now I have been helping a friend who has a report from Spy Doctor about Trojan.downloader.Banload.AM, anyway being schptical I did my best, then ran it on my own PC which is pretty well protected and used quite carefully NOW !!! (Yes I had my problems 2 years ago, and thus BC Member)
Ran the following WITHOUT REMOVING FINDS.

Spy Doctor reported 38 infections Found. More Later
Ewido 3 cookies
Spy Bot 5 Cookies
Ad Aware 3 Cookies
Trojan Hunter 28 Infections
Spy Hunter ??? 27 infections.

I have ZA Pro, as well as Defender and Spywear Blaster.
Ewido
Spy B S&D
Ad-Aware SE
A Squared
All run 2 times weekly and updated.

Spent several days checking for these "Hits". Spy Doctor makes it difficult but not impossible to find their location (unless you BUY full copy)

Did track down 2 porn scanners in the registry Fast Video Player, but it also reports
BackDoor.Rbot.UR Sys32\phgghu.exe
Backdoor.Retro64 21 entries in registry
Dialler in Sys32\Egauth.dll
and a host file redirector.......

No Other scanner mentioned any of these "Hois"
Trojan Hunter found 28 but kindly claimed to remove them.
Spy Hunter found a totally different 28 but wanted purchase to remove them.

So close on 80 Hits all Medium to Deadly.

Accordingly advised my friend to NOT spend anything until he had run a HJT and submitted it.
He replied his wifes PC (both Business usage) now had other trojans reported by SPy Doc. so he purchased Spy Doc and ran it.NO MENTION now of what the FREE SCAN was saying yesterday ???????? Sqeeky Clean !!

Now I am incredibly confused and cannot find anything in HJT or my usual Scanners to worry about.....

Ideas, advice.I am tempted to have you look at my HJT Log, but know you are all busy helping less able folks.

Really would like some opinion and guidance.not much hair left to pull out now.

Check out these comments on Spyware Warrior--a little dated but I would say the leopard hasn't changed its spots:http://netrn.net/spywareblog/archives/2004/08/01/spy-doctor-and-spyware-doctor/

Shady.

SpyDoctor not to be confused with the trusted SpywareDoctor

According to The Spyware Warrior List of Rogue/Suspect Anti-Spyware Products & Web Sites:
(A most trustworthy source.)

I am about 95% sure this is the same program I had a bad experience with before I came here for help.

In my case, the free scan found all kinds of stuff (most of which I actually did really have, as I found out later).

So I replied to their invitation to buy the program to clean up everything they had just found with a request for a toll-free number or a physical address where I could give them a credit card number. Something along the lines of "OK - you guys have just told me I have viruses, trojans, etc., so it doesn't seem real practical to put my cc# (which has since been changed) out there." Still, I fully intended to buy their product because it sounded so darn good.

Strangely enough, I never heard back from them. Came here instead.

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Thanks everyone. Some interesting refernce works here. Relise I used Spyware Doctor, my friend used SpyDoctor.simple mistake.