Rootkits are programs designed to hide malicious activity on a compromised computer by hiding files, processes or registry entries.
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Windows 8 Behaving VERY WEIRD [closed]
I just observed a very preculiar behavior in windows 8 on my laptop. The keys seemed to be locked on the delete, tab, and space key or other. My mouse was also moving on its own. I think it was ...
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Need guidance in understanding rkhunter results
Today, I performed a system wide scan for rootkits using the rkhunter --check command. All results were ok, with the exception of a warning:
[10:14:30] Warning: The command '/usr/bin/unhide.rb' has ...
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EFI partition malware?
I have a 2011 Macbook Pro, running 10.8.2 and was worried that the laptop may have been tampered with while left unattended for a few days while abroad in Asia.
I have mounted my EFI partition using:
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If I connect a USB drive to a PC with a rootkit, will the USB drive be infected as well? [closed]
I'd like to know if I run the risk of infecting a pendrive if I connect it to a PC with a rootkitted hard disk.
Let's say I have a PC infected with the TDSS rootkit, and I run tdsskiller from a USB ...
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How do I remove a root kit from Windows XP? [duplicate]
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How do I get rid of malicious spyware, malware, viruses or rootkits from my PC?
I was looking for root kits following these instructions
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Remove or Disable MBR from old C:\ Drive
Using a USB to Sata connection from an old XP box, is it possible to remove/disable the MBR\boot sector on a drive pulled from a Win7 box?
C: - I can see the drive and folders and such on my XP box, ...
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No internet connection on laptop
I'm trying to recover from a rootkit infection, where I am unable to connect to the internet.
When I try to ping the router this is the output:
Pinging 192.168.1.254 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply ...
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My computer gives a known virus warning and reboots
"Windows must now restart because the Plug and Play service terminated
unexpectedly."
"Windows must now restart becasue the DCOM Server Process launcher
service terminated unexpectedly."
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Unknown undeleteable, unformattable partition
I had two partitions on my hard drive labeled as unknown in gParted that showed up out of nowhere. I use 3 OS's on my computer, Windows which I just recently deleted, Backtrack5, and Ubuntu 12.04 ...
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is it possible to monitor dll injection events on Windows, such as to detect user mode rootkits?
wikipedia article's section on user mode rootkits is not quite clear about the mechanism of injecting code into running processes. Does this take advantage of normal OS functionality and so could be ...
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what does it mean for MalwareBytes to find malicious registry keys but nothing else?
I have a machine that is obviously infected, and when I ran MalwareBytes it told me that it found some "malicious" registry keys (surprisingly enough these contained file path to currently ...
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rogue process consumes too much memory in linux
I was going through the output of top when i saw a process listed as
pine -i
I don't have pine in my system !
Then i got into proc and did a
`ls -l /proc/9827/exe`
9827 is the process id. It ...
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XP comes up with black screen and mouse cursor only [duplicate]
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Black Screen on Startup even after running chkdsk
My computer caught a rootkit, and after many hours of trying to remove the infection I thought I would just do a repair ...
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Can signature verification expose a rootkit?
I know that rootkits operate as part of the kernel, driver or service running on the system, injecting themself into DLLs or installing as a legitimate applications.
If I were to scan the system with ...
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Deleting content in swap space and emptying cache using terminal in linux
Wish a script which would delete cache content and remove additional files which have been downloaded via the internet and saved voluntarily by the user and files any thing other than those used by ...
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My webcam just came on “out of the blue”
I have a Microsoft LifeCam HD sitting atop my monitor. Today, completely out of the blue, its light came on -- I was simply browsing the web (in Chrome) when it happened. After about 5 minutes the ...
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rootkit: Avast says it deletes it, but it detects it every time I boot up. How do I get rid of this?
After cleaning up the majority of my malware infestation with Process Explorer and Autoruns I am relying on Avast antivirus to clean up the rest. It continues to find a rootkit described as follows:
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Examples of usable rootkits
I'm trying to learn more about rootkits and was hoping to take one and let it loose in a virtual environment.
Does anyone know of a rootkit currently available that I can safely use to do this, and ...
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Reality of a Windows Vista “recovery disk” virus?
I recently borrowed a disk from a guy I don't really know. It was a Windows Vista install disk (lost my old one, and needed to reformat). The disk was a copy of the original, and I was wondering how ...
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Strange phishing attack?
When I login to wachovia/wells fargo/amazon/paypal , no matter the user/pass that I insert, i get a "we need to verify your information" page where they ask me everything, from the atm pin to my ssn ...
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Windows-7 system files integrity
Is there a tool that will check integrity of system files in Win7 and search for invalid or changed ones. I would like to find which files were changed by rootkit installed on system. It would be nice ...
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Is there some file browser that uses low level functions to browse hard disk?
I have Windows 7, NTFS hard disk. I have detected rootkit files but can't delete them through Windows explorer, obviously because they are not visible. Is there some other file browser that is using ...
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What is 1UnHooker.sys?
I'm still searching for a solution to my problem as I stated in my previous question (UAC being turned off every time Windows 7 starts (once a day)). Today, a program called SpyHunter found an unknown ...
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UAC being turned off once a day on Windows 7
I have strange problem on my HP laptop. This began to happen recently. Whenever I start my machine, Windows 7 Action Center displays the following warning:
You need to restart your computer for
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Suspicious drivers, is it a rootkit?
The following entries show up in DriverView on my PC:
C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\dump_dumpata.sys
C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\dump_dumpfve.sys
C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\dump_msahci.sys
These ...
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Removing a rootkit from the MBR.. without formatting?
I have run hitman pro and found 'traces of the TDL3 Alureon' rootkit on the computer. However, running TDSSKiller would of solved this issue - but - apparently the symptoms keep coming back so I ...
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Correcting hijacked search in Chrome from “resultdns.com”?
Potentially unnecessary background: I was a Sloppy Internet User today and downloaded an unsafe file without realizing my virus-protection software was offline. I noticed suspicious behavior from my ...
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Linux workstation: how to know if it has been rooted?
I was working on my Linux "workstation" (it has no sound and I don't play on it nor watch any movie: it's purely a work-machine, hence I call it my "workstation") and suddenly something very weird ...
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Problem tracking down virus - services.exe port 443 and svchost.exe ports 25 + 80
Hey, I'm running an XP SP3 system with all the latest updates. It seems I have a virus and I'm having a hard time tracking it down.
I have some outbound connections; services.exe connects to some ...
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I can't edit /etc/init.d/rc.sysinit as local - vi says it's [readonly]
I have a rootkitted SUSE Linux and I'm trying to fix it. I have root privileges but when I go:
cd /etc/init.d
vi rc.sysinit
vi tells me the file is [readonly]. The owner of the file is root.root ...
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System restarting after pressing scan on rootkit revealer
My pc is affected with sality virus and after lot of investigation i could get to permanently enable regedit and taskmanager and clean infected files. But i wanted to remove it from the core so i used ...
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Kernel Mode Rootkit
On the other 3 computers in my family, I believe that we have a kernel-mode rootkit for windows.
It appears that the same rootkit is on all of them. We think.
We changed all the important passwords ...
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how to stop a driver from running - it self protected and rootkit hidden
I have this serous problem
For the first time I can not stop a program from running.
Something is on one laptop computer that is run as system legacy driver, and self protected and hidden on ...
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Computer is broadcasting on port 139 at startup - Virus?
Maybe this isn't the right forum to ask this question, but here it goes. Whenever I boot my vista machine, right after login there has been an extended delay until the actual desktop appears. I also ...
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Measures when routinely checking security on a home Ubuntu server
I use an old Mac mini with latest Ubuntu server to have a "home Gmail": with minimal time spent on configuration I have my webserver with wiki, mail server etc. (and no Google Ads)
All ports not used ...
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How to get a free full anti malware coverage on windows?
There are many specialized anti malware applications, namely:
Anti-virus
Anti-spyware
Anti-malware
Anti-rootkit
And so on. What combination of free Windows tools would protect me from any sort of ...
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External rootkit detection software?
The trouble with any rootkit detection software is that if the rootkit is really good, it will work to hide traces of itself from the detecting software as well.
I imagine that rootkits could be ...
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Is there a way to find rootkits on 64-bit Windows 7
I was at work and got a help desk call about a rather severe malware infection and it got me thinking about my own computer.
I am running Windows 7 64-bit RC1 on my everyday laptop. I run ESET ...
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BIOS root kit? Or, how do I fresh install a clean BIOS?
So I was installing questionable operating system onto my EEE pc and it required me to downgrade the BIOS which I really am not an expert at. I used a patch and it appeared to work.
Now, I'm paranoid ...
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How can I remove Rootkit.TDSS?
Is there a good way to wholly remove Rootkit.TDSS? Malwarebytes and Spyware Doctor both detect it on an old XP machine I have. Malwarebytes says it's removing it, but when I reboot and rescan, it ...
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Which rootkit cleaner do you recommend for Windows XP?
Answering the question "Task Manager shows 100% CPU utilization, but nothing in process list does.", Paul Woodward stated that his problem with 100% CPU was a rootkit infecting his computer. My ...
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What else besides a virus would keep turning on “Show Hidden Files” in WinXP
I've got a couple of machines that definitely recently had viruses and very likely still do.
I've run Norton AV, Radix RootKit remover, Sophos Rootkit remover, Spybot, Ad-Aware, CA Antivirus Plus, ...
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OS X rootkit/spyware scanners?
For OS X, I have discovered Rootkit Hunter recently and liked the functionality. What other rootkit/spyware scanners for OS X have been developed that are available for use?
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RootKit Hunter Warnings on Mac OS X
Just executed rkhunter on my new MBP which runs a freshly installed Mac OS X and I get the following warnings:
Checking for passwd file changes [ Warning ]
Checking ...
