Re: Help, possible rootkit

From: Marcus Merrin (marcus.merrin_at_emptyair.com)
Date: 10/25/04

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    Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 18:53:42 -0700
To: BillyBob <billybobknob@hotmail.com>

    BillyBob wrote:

    >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 ?
    >
    >Thanks
    >Bill
    >
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    I had similar symptoms on an XP notebook.... turned out one of two
    memory cards had got dislodged and the box was running on half its
    normal memory. Took me a couple of days to figure it out (Duh!)

    Marcus

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