Anti-virus scan detected rootkit...

**Caius** · 10-28-2008, 18:09

I think there was a pluging for Adaware for rootkits.

**edyzmedieval** · 10-28-2008, 20:20

HijackThis is a good for removing rootkits.

**Spartan198** · 10-31-2008, 19:15

Originally Posted by edyzmedieval

HijackThis is a good for removing rootkits.

Actually, I found that program while browsing "how to delete a rootkit" and installed it.

It did delete the rootkit, but afterward started acting really strange. The permissions window kept popping up, saying it was trying to access my system. But after clicking "yes" several times, it did nothing that I could see, so I got suspicious kind of suspicious about it and decided to uninstall and clear all traces of it.

But it did delete the rootkit, though.

**TevashSzat** · 11-01-2008, 01:15

Originally Posted by Spartan198

Actually, I found that program while browsing "how to delete a rootkit" and installed it.

It did delete the rootkit, but afterward started acting really strange. The permissions window kept popping up, saying it was trying to access my system. But after clicking "yes" several times, it did nothing that I could see, so I got suspicious kind of suspicious about it and decided to uninstall and clear all traces of it.

But it did delete the rootkit, though.

Now, I would run some more antivirus scans because it sounds like that program you installed was trying to install something nasty on your comp there.....You wouldn't happen to remember its name do you?

**Spartan198** · 11-01-2008, 02:06

Originally Posted by TevashSzat

Now, I would run some more antivirus scans because it sounds like that program you installed was trying to install something nasty on your comp there.....You wouldn't happen to remember its name do you?

I misread edyzmedieval's post. He was talking about a program called HijackThis, but the perp of the happenings I described was a rootkit removal program called UnHackMe.

I ran three subsequent scans that night, with daily scans since then, but the only hits I've had are a few Adware hits in a now-deleted registry entry left over from a registry cleaner program I'd downloaded from that website FinallyFast.com.

**Tellos Athenaios** · 11-05-2008, 15:54

Perhaps you can grab yourself a copy of a trial version of Kaspersky, see if that one (if the trial version actually does include rootkit search) confirms your AVG scan?