Me does weekly maintenence:
spybot s/d. spyware blaster, ccleaner, glary utilities, system mechanic, and malware bytes.
Every thing usually comes up clean, but now and again Malware bytes flashes up infection: broken-open HKEY current user/c.
Malware bytes seems to kill it,(temporarily)
On Rattlle`s advice from similar thread, i`ve downloaded and tried Kapersky1s TDSSkiller which detects nothing! anybody any suggestions please??
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Its a false positive. Roll over and go back to sleep - there is nothing wrong.
>pybot s/d. spyware blaster, ccleaner, glary utilities, system mechanic, and malware bytes.
you are what I call a Computer Hypochondriac.
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Ahh! but they all seem to find different "crudd"! - so everythings covered, hopefully!
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Agreed. Malware bytes is way too over-sensitive. The program that cried wolf. Can't trust it because of that.
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careful what i download here at work on wind up xp
at home mint 10 beta no probs either apart from losing spotify output every now and then
i wouldnt even know what a rootkit was if it smacked me in me hubcaps
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>>>i wouldnt even know what a rootkit was if it smacked me in me hubcaps
All I know is they're what Rattle fiddles with in his bedroom all evening.
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I am pretty sure he infects his local area to keep the workstream up.
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Not seen as many rootkits lately actually, sadly for me.
A rootkit in simple terms modifies the operating system so that viruses can remain undected. However they all have a purpose and if you had a rootkit in most cases you will know about it, they do things like sending spam (your ISP will soon let you know if that was the case!), redirect websites, act as key loggers etc.
To the OP download a program called RKILL from bleeping computer, then run Malwarebytes see it if makes a difference.
Also it is always worth doing the scan in safe mode.
It probably is just a false positive, download the free version of Hitman Pro and install it as a one off scan. If that finds nothing then I wouldn't worry too much if you have no symptons.
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My customers typically are not the most 'net educated' of people so are more prone to getting viruses. A lot of the infected machines I deal with belong to kids of my customers who have been downloading too much free porn.
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rootkit doo-dah! - Zero
