Also read PC Mag’s article:
** Rootkits: The Ultimate Stealth Attack **
Ever hear of a rootkit? It’s a surreptitious program that is specifically designed to conceal its presence on your system, most likely toward some malicious end.
Rootkits are hard to detect. Your case may just be that of a trojan or a virus. If your aunty-virus doesnt detect any virus/trojan or does detect them, it doesnt mean you dont or do have rootkit.
I suggest you run that F-Secure application and see if it finds anything and post here before you wipe you HDD clean. Im actually curious myself.
creaete a ghost image of ur most trusted and working installation and then whenever ther's a problem wipe off the os partition and use the ghost, norton ghost. or perphaps other imaging software
The F-secure app just crashed and messed up the whole system At first I couldnt even get to the website but I managed to download it on a diff system put it on a flashdrive and saved it here. SO it didnt work
But I did get the Sysinternals Rootkitrevealer and found the following
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GENCTURK rootkit?
It does say rootkit several times
Anyway I didnt feel like waiting the whole scan so I abborted it
reinstalling in a few mins
Its been more then two years anyway ( I think)
PD: I have so much stuff on it Its hard to save it all. Besides that, my bro and sisters use m comp as the download machine ( I squeezed their connections a bit :halo: )
But I ll do it more often I think
But first I need an upgrade