Re: Download freeware RKR scanning software (detect Sony rootkit & others)

pamelafiischer_at_yahoo.com
Date: 11/20/05 

Date: 20 Nov 2005 14:03:33 -0800

Ouch. I forgot the most important on-topic question of all.
Q1: What do we need to do to REALLY become administrator to run
RKDetect?

Logged in as "administrator", here is the error I got when I ran
RKDetect.
"An error occurred. Check machine availability and your access level
(must be an administrator)."

Huh? I am administrator. There are no other users.

Is there a good way to check why RKDetect thinks I'm not an
administrator?
Is the rootkit spyware causing a hidden user to be administrator
instead?
Does this fail for anyone else who is also running as administator?
Why me?

Ok, so that's 5 questions!

They are really all one frustrating related question in the quest to
run the SysInternals RKDetect rootkit detecter freeware download.

Q: Why is RKDetect telling me I need to run it as administrator when I
am?

Pamela

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