Re: rootkitrevealer

de jvin007 04/15/2006 04:45

"The Six Million Dollar Man" <"$$$$$$"@BigDonairos.com> wrote in message
news:4ab32fFsahjhU1@individual.net...
> ellis_jay wrote:
>> Got from sysinternal. But as I let it do its scan and clicking on 'Help"
>> file when it was finished a window pops up and says help file cannot be
>> found. Is the help file in the utility or does it have to downloaded
>> from
>> the authors site? All that it found was one registry entry that seemed
>> to
>> be something left over in HKLM and harmless and some hidden stuff in
>> temporary files. I have enabled "show all hidden files" in my computer
>> settings, so what is hidden there needs to be deleted but how?
>>
>> Winxp home
>>
>
> STOP!!!! Don't delete anything. Windows hides files that are necessary for
> your computer to work. LEAVE those files alone. NEVER delete anything that
> you aren't familiar with. Better yet reset Windows Explorer to hide those
> files.

Some viruses and spyware programs also create hidden files, so it is
better not to set Explorer to hide anything. When you find a file you
are not sure of use Google to find out what it is.

By the way, any hidden files in a temporary folder can be deleted as
they are not needed by the operating system.

As for the rootkit revealer help file it comes with the program. You
should have a RootkitRevealer.exe and a RootkitRevealer.chm in the
file you downloaded from sysinternal. The chm file is the help file and
make sure it is in the same directory as the exe file.