Re: rootkitrevealer

de ellis_jay 04/15/2006 03:30

jvin007 wrote:
> "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.

Not here. I will uninstall and re-download. Thanx........btw, I did say I
had my settngs in my system to unhide (for the other responder)

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