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08-14-2009
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| Vista Home Premium 32bit | Scanning for rootkits My computer is crashing constantly, and I believe it to be related to my Moby Dick of a rootkit. The reason I call it that is that it showed up one time when I was scanning my system with spysweeper, and before I could remove it, it crashed again. I haven't been able to get it to show up again, and I was trying to see what a good suggestion for a free scanner to hunt it down would be. It showed up as "system registry error - rootkit" or something very similar. |
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08-14-2009
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| | Re: Scanning for rootkits Back up essential documents, wipe the hard drive completely clean, then restore from your original media. This is not something you can easily or certainly clean up after. "amadeusmozart" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message news:5905131280835384a29cc5a4e3af93b8@xxxxxx-gateway.com... Quote: > > My computer is crashing constantly, and I believe it to be related to my > Moby Dick of a rootkit. The reason I call it that is that it showed up > one time when I was scanning my system with spysweeper, and before I > could remove it, it crashed again. I haven't been able to get it to show > up again, and I was trying to see what a good suggestion for a free > scanner to hunt it down would be. It showed up as "system registry error > - rootkit" or something very similar. > > > -- > amadeusmozart |
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08-14-2009
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| Vista Ultimate SP2/Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | Re: Scanning for rootkits  Quote: Originally Posted by amadeusmozart  My computer is crashing constantly, and I believe it to be related to my Moby Dick of a rootkit. The reason I call it that is that it showed up one time when I was scanning my system with spysweeper, and before I could remove it, it crashed again. I haven't been able to get it to show up again, and I was trying to see what a good suggestion for a free scanner to hunt it down would be. It showed up as "system registry error - rootkit" or something very similar. DOWNLOAD HIJACKTHIS Do not post the log here, we can't help! Post the logs at a specialist Forum: AUMHA FORUM BLEEPING COMPUTER FORUM GEEKS TO GO FORUM MAJOR GEEKS FORUM MALWAREBYTES FORUM MALWARE REMOVAL FORUM SPYWAREHAMMER FORUM SPYWARE INFO FORUM WHAT THE TECH FORUM Be sure to read all the sticky announcements/instructions at the top of each malware forum! |
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