Just ran RootkitRevealer on my main PC and found about 10 reg keys and 2 .tmp files. Wondering if it's enough of a concern to actually look into these, or if it has a lot of false positives? Never used this tool before. THanks, SolX
Now, on my Vista system I can't get RootkitRevealer to even run (says it times out) but it's supposed to work on Vista. Really starting to wonder if both were cracked since I've installed a couple freeware programs that I didn't check thoroughly enough in the last few months. This is a pain and destructive to my business productivity having to do all this research and then back everything up and re-install. Probably some super l337 script kiddie using a download they didn't even write, thinking they are cool. I used to pay attention to all those sites like packet storm security, but it just gotten old. Guess it's time to hit them back up again though, or switch back to Linux. I suppose you can probably use MS Office and write add-ins for it with Linux now, but won't that make it just as insecure as Windows then? Anyway, I'm doing the research, and I understand this isn't a security forum and nobody probably wants to really answer, but I'll try and post what I find out anyway since I haven't had time to post on any other forums for quite a while, and in case anyone else is sick of having to always be protecting windows and ms office from itself also.
So far I've ruled out two of the reg keys as threats on my main pc and they turned out to be false positives like I figured. Still working on the others, but I'm guessing they are pretty much the same. Also, rootkitrevealer probably can't run on my vista laptop cause of some bug in the new version. More info here: http://preview.tinyurl.com/38nsuh I'll only post on this again if I find anything real.