I somehow managed to pick up the "FAMOUSSEARCHENGINE.COM" rootkit on my XP laptop. HOW ON EARTH do you get rid of it?
Trend's rootkit finder was useless.
Steve
I somehow managed to pick up the "FAMOUSSEARCHENGINE.COM" rootkit on my XP laptop. HOW ON EARTH do you get rid of it?
Trend's rootkit finder was useless.
Steve
Hitman Pro 3.5 from Surfright - http://www.surfright.nl/en/hitmanpro
This will confirm it if present & you can remove it with the free 30 day trial.
nuke from orbit
or combofix may help you, would still backup and nuke from orbit, but thats me personally
Install Linux or FreeBSD.
But really, Windows is just a maintenance nightmare...
This space for rent.
[QUOTE=dilbert;212991]Hitman Pro 3.5 from Surfright - http://www.surfright.nl/en/hitmanpro
Dilbert, thank you!
That worked, NOTHING ELSE DID!
only side effect was It tried to declare all the LSX exes a trojan, but you could manually opt them out.
Steve
Glad to help, most rootkits install a modified hard disk driver that loads with the operating system so any program you install or run to try and remove is unable to see or remove the infection as the disk I/O is hidden.
Hitman is cloud based so doesnt matter if its embedded in the drivers