Remove rootkit from Windows XP Pro system
How can I best detect AND remove rootkits from my Windows XP Pro system
To Detect
Rootkit revealer
To remove
- Backup your data (file based backup, not an image backup)
- Obliterate and re-create the partitions and filesystem
- re-install your system.
- Install Virus Scanner (with up to date defs)
- Restore your data
You could spend weeks trying to remove a rootkit, and you could never be 100% certain that it has gone. The only guaranteed way to do it, is wipe and start again.
GMER is the more powerfull one, but it's not user friendly
Avira Anti Rootkit & Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool are more user friendly and almost as powerfull