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Possible rootkit infection?
Hi
My system was detecting some strange virus etc yesterday for a brief period of time ... but fortunately avast free version(latest update) .. detected and quarintined all of them. Most their paths were like:
C:\user\public\documents\DELL.exe
C:\user\public\documents\documents.exe
C:\user\public\documents\downloads\downloads.exe
Then I scaned with avast+malewarebytes+supertin ... and all results nothing found.
After google'ing a bit .. I found this article that suggested it could be a possible rootkit infection, so I downloaded .. GMER and with its quick scan it found the following(screenshot attached)
Although it stopped after a while ... I mean the avast detection but GMER still detects something (I'm quite clueless here though) .. however I would like to know if the thing virus or rootkit is still there within my system .. because from what I recall .. i just scanned with the above mentioned security tools and they found nothing ang GMER found something .. that I cant delete (delete button deactive) but perhaps its because the file it detects is part of the OS .. I'm wondering if I didn't delete the file then .. how did it stop and just to be on the safe side .. is there anyway to know if its still within my system.
Finally if anyone knows any security tools that can prevent rootkits or whatever(I'm pretty much guessing here) from entering the system .. would save me from lots of trouble.
Thanks in advance!