re: Advice to everybody dealing with scumware Monday, October 17, 2005 at 6:00 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Larry (6 messages posted) Of the three Win2K and XP machines I use at home and the office, Sysinternals RootKit Revealer hasn't found any evidence of this kind malware so I haven't needed to delve any deeper...yet LOL! But, I did want to mention that if you do need to ferret out something and want DOS access to NTFS files, go back to Sysinternals and look into their NTFSDOS Professional v4.01...when getting into that kind of stuff I'm out of my depth though. Good luck! On Friday, October 14, 2005 at 10:38 pm, Karl Jackson wrote: >Thanks, Larry, I already have it - the only trouble with Rootkit >Revealer is that it doesn't seem to actually do anything about rootkits except >tell you they're there. I suppose you could boot up into DOS, look where Revealer >tells you and delete the files manually. The only problem with that, of course, is >if you're working in NTFS, in which case you're stuffed as far as DOS goes. >Why haven't these (admittedly ingenious) prats who write scumware got anything better >to do? Also, why doesn't commercial software such as McAfee and Norton scan for rootkits? >Once, in a fit of rage, I suggested creating AV/firewall software that could take >a more proactive approach, i.e. tracing the scumware/DoS attack/whatever to its source, >then sending back a BIOS virus to corrupt the hardware controllers on the attacker's >motherboard, causing all the drives and the CPU fan to spin out of control and burn >out, effectively trashing the entire PC. Hit them where it hurts and see if they >like it! >I've hated scumware writers ever since one of my 5 1/4" floppies (this was 1989 - >don't laugh!) was hit by a particularly vicious strain of Stoned that actually killed >the disk - it was so badly corrupted, it was beyond recovery even with Norton >Utilities. I couldn't even reformat it. > > > Written in response to: re: Advice to everybody dealing with scumware (Anonymouse: Friday, October 14, 2005 at 10:38 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Advice to everybody dealing with scumware (Anonymouse: Wed, Oct 5, 2005, 10:55 pm) re: Advice to everybody dealing with scumware (Larry: Fri, Oct 14, 2005, 11:23 am) re: Advice to everybody dealing with scumware (Anonymouse: Fri, Oct 14, 2005, 10:38 pm) re: Advice to everybody dealing with scumware (Larry: Mon, Oct 17, 2005, 6:00 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum