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Rootkits

CyberGhost · 2006-09-04 14:26:05

Those damned rootkits..... :mad: So yesterday, I get some email, telling me to unsubscribe from something, and I say OK, I copy the address, and explorer.exe crashes, I look at the email, it's size it a bit big for a text email, I say OK, I'll go along with this, and open IE, oddly my name is there, I don't remember for…

04-09-2006 2:26pm

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CyberGhost

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Those damned rootkits..... :mad:

So yesterday, I get some email, telling me to unsubscribe from something, and I say OK, I copy the address, and explorer.exe crashes, I look at the email, it's size it a bit big for a text email, I say OK, I'll go along with this, and open IE, oddly my name is there, I don't remember for sure, I must have bought something from that shop/ebay.

Anyways, I have process guard application and NOD32, NOTHING, detected it!

I downloaded GMER, ran it, bam! a rootkit, explorer.exe in "C:\Documents"

I have no idea how the hell could it execute from just copying it to clipboard.

Anyways, I did something computer crashed, I restarted, and it's gone, I ran GMER, Sophos, nothing....

Then I remembered couple of days ago, I had explorer crash on me very oddly(the window would just dissapear) when I was working on lots of files in explorer, now I don't remember, what crashed it(what did it say in "details") and what did I do before that happened

The bad thing is that I made a backup image of the drive after those crashes, I restored it yesterday.....appears to be clean... so there is a hope it was just an average crash...

Anyways, those rootkits are a serious and scary problem, and you can forget about antiviruses, so get GMER(http://www.gmer.net/) and check your computers, you never know...

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