Remove rootkit from Windows XP Pro system

Question

How can I best detect AND remove rootkits from my Windows XP Pro system

Answer 1

To Detect

Rootkit revealer

To remove

1. Backup your data (file based backup, not an image backup)
2. Obliterate and re-create the partitions and filesystem
3. re-install your system.
4. Install Virus Scanner (with up to date defs)
5. Restore your data

You could spend weeks trying to remove a rootkit, and you could never be 100% certain that it has gone. The only guaranteed way to do it, is wipe and start again.

Answer 2

GMER is the more powerfull one, but it's not user friendly

Avira Anti Rootkit & Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool are more user friendly and almost as powerfull