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Security Tool - How to remove? I can’t get rid of Security Tool – HOW TO KILL IT AND IT’S PRECURSOR ROOTKIT virus (hopefully GOOGLE can pick up this tag and help other folks find this site)Hi folks,picked up this peckerwood last nite when I was redirected during an image search for a horror movie actor (Rondo Hatten) for no apparent reason, and then saw a cmd/DOS window pop open and disappear for no apparent reason. I knew something bad was afoot, and sure enough, 1 minute later started getting the popups and redirects keeping me off the interweb, wouldn’t allow me to run task manager, etc. The bastards that write these things should be castrated and then drawn and quartered. All you good folks and me losing all this time just for those screwheads. So using a buddy’s machine found this page and the comments.
I saved it as a . I could get to it without being online. Anyway, read the comments and got a lot of good tips. Here’s my story, hope it helps someone.
Went to redo it and found that the pic was still listed in desktop manager in the . I didn’t think about it but it turns out this is one of the clues you have a problem. I’m no expert but I think this was the rootkit manifesting itself. So I redid the picture and my desktop and proceeded whistling past the graveyard all day with no problems.
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Then, last night while looking up Rondo, I clicked on a photo of him, got a redirect, then the cmd/DOS window opened and closed and everything went to hell immediately as described in my intro. Tried Malwarebytes in Safe mode, it found 1. Rebooted normally, still had it.
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Ran Lan. Desk (our corporate app) in Safe mode, it showed nothing, rebooted, still had it. Started up in Safe Mode, tried digging around in all the folders with show all files and system files and hidden files turned on, still no joy. Went to DOS window and looked in the same places (sometimes viruses can hide in windows file manager views but not the DOS viewer), still didn’t see it. Re read the comments and found how to start up taskmanager *IMMEDIATELY* upon normal boot before the virus starts, and this worked.
Then I could see the virus, sure enough, with a random number. WRITE DOWN THIS NUMBER! Mine was not the 8 or 1.
Killed the process with taskman at that point. Then I went and found it in the Start/Programs folder and right clicked to get properties, and sure enough, it had been hiding in the docs and settings – users- my name – app data folder. Then I went to safe mode again. Hit F3 to find the next instance. I found it in multiple places. When it said it was done searching, I closed regedit and restarted it, researched, and found three more. On the third run it found nothing.
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Then I again went to file manager and emptied the recycle bin. Now I thought about idea that a “rootkit virus probably is hiding or installing the virus” from this forum, so I went to my buddy’s machine and downloaded combofix and got the updated version, put it on a thumbdrive and ran it on my machine.
It is slow but very effective. It will ask to install MS’s restore toolkit, so I did that. That took a while too. Then it started going for real, and nearly immediately said I had a rootkit virus and said it wanted to reboot. Then it chugged along at it’s leisurely pace reporting step 1 complete, 2, 3, etc until step 5. Combofix appears old school and clunky and slow, but by god it works and it works well. It probably took 2.
I’d still like to rip the heads off the hackers who wrote this and *$$# down their neckholes, but at least I found a solution. Good luck folks, I hope this helps someone and may Karma place parasitic gangrenous gutrot starting in the !