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Sir_Brizz

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Win32:RustNT Malware Found?
« on: June 10, 2009, 08:31:05 PM »
I'm using Avast!4 Home Edition and one of the computers at my house found the malware (rootkit) Win32:RustNT. I've looked all over on Google and I can't find what this malware does or even is, whether it's dangerous or just some crappy rootkit that is useless but I should get rid of. I found it on beep.sys in the system32 folder. Quarantining it didn't work, I'm trying a boot time scan but it is still running.

Does anyone know anything about this virus?
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Jtaylor83

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Re: Win32:RustNT Malware Found?
« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2009, 08:39:11 PM »
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Sir_Brizz

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Re: Win32:RustNT Malware Found?
« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2009, 08:40:14 PM »
Are any of those better than the other? I've never used any of them before (been out of the hardware business for 8+ years now).
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Re: Win32:RustNT Malware Found?
« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2009, 08:59:56 PM »
it's a new variant of Rustock..
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Sir_Brizz

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Re: Win32:RustNT Malware Found?
« Reply #4 on: June 10, 2009, 09:08:59 PM »
I don't know whether to be happy that you know, or sad that another variant of Rustock is out...
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Re: Win32:RustNT Malware Found?
« Reply #5 on: June 10, 2009, 11:42:29 PM »
i just gave you a hint what to search on google... it's not so frequently seen infection, so i guess it would be better to find also some external resources and discuss the results here ;)
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Sir_Brizz

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Re: Win32:RustNT Malware Found?
« Reply #6 on: June 11, 2009, 09:23:34 AM »
Well, the boot time scan found two files, beep.sys and glaide.sys. I just deleted them both and then ran a full system scan when the machine booted and it didn't find anything else. Good work, Avast!
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Re: Win32:RustNT Malware Found?
« Reply #7 on: June 11, 2009, 04:45:01 PM »
Whilst it may not have been a problem in this case, deletion is a bad habit to get into.

Deletion isn't really a good first option (you have none left), 'first do no harm' don't delete, send virus to the chest and investigate.
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Sir_Brizz

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Re: Win32:RustNT Malware Found?
« Reply #8 on: June 11, 2009, 05:43:05 PM »
I suppose that is what I should have done, in retrospect. I don't run into viruses/malware a lot so not well practiced in that. I don't even know how I would have or could have gotten it, my wife said it popped up while she was doing a google image search.
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