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Offline Tim_60

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Rootkit infestation?
« on: September 05, 2019, 08:26:34 PM »
I'm running Avast free version on Win 10 home. I ran a full scan a few days ago and it stalled at 28% (for about 8 hours) so I cancelled it and it reported over 940
detections, all rootkits.  I let Avast resolve it and it claimed to have fixed everything,  ran another full scan and it came back with the same amount of detections again, all rootkits again.  I then ran rootkit scanners from bitdefender, kapersky, trend micro, mcafee, emsisoft and malware bytes.  I ran RKill first to shut down any malicious processes before scanning.  NONE of these programs found anything.  I tried repairing Avast and ran another full scan and its still saying I have the rootkits.  I'm stumped now. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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Re: Rootkit infestation?
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2019, 09:27:49 PM »

Offline Tim_60

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Re: Rootkit infestation?
« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2019, 10:44:43 PM »
Thanks for your reply Pondus,  getting ready to head to work now, but will get those logs posted A.S.A.P. after I get off.

Offline Tim_60

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Re: Rootkit infestation?
« Reply #3 on: September 06, 2019, 07:48:33 PM »
Here are those log files.  The only thing Malwarebytes appears to have hit on is my Advanced System Care for some reason.

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Re: Rootkit infestation?
« Reply #4 on: September 06, 2019, 08:46:45 PM »
Do you have a log / screenshot of avast detection?

What was the location of detected files?


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Re: Rootkit infestation?
« Reply #5 on: September 06, 2019, 10:22:39 PM »
Attached is a screenshot of the detection,  I couldn't find a log file.  The location of the detections were C:\users\tim\desktop\desktop\  and then throughout that second desktop folder which has a lot of old files/programs in it.

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Re: Rootkit infestation?
« Reply #6 on: September 06, 2019, 10:25:07 PM »
In FRST logs I can't see active infection. Can you click on Detailed Report and post screenshot of it?

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Re: Rootkit infestation?
« Reply #7 on: September 06, 2019, 10:29:14 PM »
Sorry I forgot to add this screen, its a small snippet of all the results.   Oh and I dont even have office 2000 on this pc.

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Re: Rootkit infestation?
« Reply #8 on: September 06, 2019, 10:31:24 PM »
Did you have Office2000 folder on your Desktop?

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Re: Rootkit infestation?
« Reply #9 on: September 06, 2019, 10:35:42 PM »
Yes I have it in the desktop folder, forgot it was there, although its never been detected on any previous scans.