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Re: [Virus] Virus's and spyware! Yuk! All of those files found by SDFix are really malicious rootkits and remote access trojans
Are are you aware of the complications and security risks of such a compromise?
What is a backdoor or remote access trojan?
Read this article.
Danger: Remote Access Trojans
»www.microsoft.com/technet/securi···rat.mspx
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Basically, your system has been compromised. Anyone may have had access to anything on your system or done whatever they want to it and hidden it from you. The rootkit makes it worse as your system is no longer trustworthy.
It's a trivial matter to clean up the rootkit itself, most rootkits and all botnet clients are Remote Access Trojans (RATs), and SDFIX has done that but....
A RAT is a program that allows a remote user to connect to the computer and issue commands.
Unless you can be sure that a remote user did not connect to the machine and run commands on it (which is almost always impossible to ascertain), you cannot know what damage the bad guy has done above and beyond installing the rootkit.
That unknown is what accounts for the recommendation to rebuild the machine.
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Yes, I know all about backdoors and remote access trojans, their nasty and hard to deal with. I'd like to get this computer cleaned up, because my friend doesent have format disks for this computer. Its a 2001 dell dimension 2300..
Is the only solution to format ? Or can it be cleaned up? |
