Sneaky Rootkit

Viruses and worms
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So my avast antivirus located a rootkit the other week, and upon encountering it in a boot scan avast would not allow me to delete or move it to the chest. I was forced to select ignore to proceed with the scan. Also with me being a little busy lately, I haven’t been able to give this thing my full attention however I ran another bootscan recently with no results/threats found.
Being a little skeptical I glanced at the log of the first boot scan which listed the virus and the message read to the tune of ‘location cannot be found.’

I’m worried and doubtful that the rootkit is gone, so if anyone can help me I’d be much appreciated. I have already located the thread for creating logs and such and am willing to follow those instructions for anyone who is able to lend a hand.

2

hey and welcome to the forum.

please follow this guide. a malware expert will help you from there

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53253.0

3

Ok, here is everything. Let me know if I goofed somewhere.

4

What was the name of the file on the report please

5

I’m not sure exactly what report you mean, but I can’t seem to find the name of the rootkit from my avast program

6

Is the system behaving normally ?

7

Quite normally, however I’m worrisome that it may be a silent virus with intentions of stealing my data, passwords and such

8

I would have seen an indication of that on one of the logs

Sometimes Avast may detect rootkit activity when a windows programme is in the process of updating

9

Alright, I suppose that might have been the case considering my only option upon boot scanning was to ignore the issue. That and avast no longer being able to locate the issue as well.

10

Run OTL and press the Cleanup button to remove it and its associated files