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AntiVirus Poll 2006 »
« Hackers Serve Rootkits with Bagles  
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supermario00

join:2002-10-28
Port Saint Lucie, FL


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 Time to panic, or a false positive?

Every so often I'll scan to my hearts content with programs like Spybot, Ad Aware, Avast, Hijack and RootkitRevealer. But for the first time today, I noticed that RR picked up something in my mozilla cache. I figured I would post about it, since I had Firefox running at the time, and wasn't sure if it's related to doing something else while RR scans. It's around 34kb(looks like a cache file), and seems to be hiding in the owner/application date/mozilla/firefox/profiles directory.

My question is, nothing else picked it up except RR. Should I be worried about a possible break in, or is it a false positive?

The interesting thing to me is that sometimes it's their, other times it isn't.

rb2006

join:2006-03-25
Grafton, OH
IMO, false positive.

The Sysinternals site indicates that you should close everything and not use the system while RKR scans.

(I had similiar entries when I ran RKR with apps open)

supermario00

join:2002-10-28
Port Saint Lucie, FL

Ah, that makes sense rb2006. I got a little spooked for a minute heh. I just did three scans with nothing running and me just letting it scan. After the scans, nothing came up. So I think I'm safe
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