Windows woes

[Wang Zhen]

Kevin Bealer wrote:
> In article <e0jqoa$20i$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Walter Bright says...
> 
>>Dave wrote:
>>
>>>In article <e0io88$22jc$2 at digitaldaemon.com>, Walter Bright says...
>>>
>>>>Walter Bright wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>At this point, it was apparent that tech support had no idea why this was 
>>>>>happening, and I was beginning to worry there was either a rootkit 
>>>>>installed, or there was just creeping corruption going on. I gave up on 
>>>>>Microsoft tech support, and decided to reinstall Windows.
>>>>
>>>>Turns out, I did have a trojan rootkit on my system. arrgh!
>>>
>>>Any idea how that happened / made it onto your system? (it has me worried that
>>>virus scanning didn't pick it up).
>>
>>I have no idea how it got on. Being a trojan, I must have run something. 
>>I'm usually very careful about not running anything I am not sure of, 
>>careful enough that this is the first virus/trojan I've had in 10 years.
>>
>>I'm almost to the point of using a separate sacrificial machine for web 
>>surfing.
> 
> 
> Apologies if you already explained and I missed it - how did you test for a
> rootkit / vm?
> 
> Kevin
> 
> 
> 

I don't know how Walter detected the rootkit on his machine, but I would 
recommend SysInternals' excellent freeware RootKitRevealer, available at 
http://www.sysinternals.com/utilities/rootkitrevealer.html