Re: Help, possible rootkit
From: Glenn Sieb (ges_at_wingfoot.org)
Date: 10/24/04
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Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:41:20 -0400 To: BillyBob <billybobknob@hotmail.com>
BillyBob said the following on 10/23/2004 12:06 PM:
>I have noticed that my XP system is behaving like I have a rootkit.
>
>- My mouse is jumpy (it freezes for a second when I move it around the
>desktop) and the minimized Taskmanager in the systray shows I have around
>25 - 30 % usage, but when I open it, there is no process listed using this
>much.
>- I did a netstat, fport, openports and none of these show that I have any
>odd ports open or any connections established.
>- even when I disconnect from the Internet these symptoms do not stop. They
>stop if I reboot, but then start again.
>
>I have ran VICE, Klister, PatchFinder and RkDetect from rootkit.com and they
>could not find anything.
>
>Any more suggestions ?
>Any more rootkit finding tools for Windows ?
>
>
http://www.lavasoft.de/ http://security.kolla.de/
Grab AdAware and Spybot Search & Destroy.
My bet is spyware--this is the usual behaviour I've seen on PCs infected
therein.
Best,
Glenn
--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
~Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
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