Hitman Pro 3.5 | Build 85 Released !

Dinesh said:

Looks like they have removed Avira from the list. Now it shows only NOD32, G data, Prevx and A squared.

Huh? Avira has been gone for months. Do you use the 64 bit? I think it was still listed in it even though it wasn't being used.

Hitman Pro 3.5.5 Build 98 released.

No release notes yet.

I agree that the only the sure-fire method of making sure that no rootkits are present is by formatting and clean installing. If I find that I have a rootkit, I wouldn't waste time trying to clean it out. Even if I did remove whatever out, there is no way of knowing that the computer is clean again and it would be dangerous to assume so too.

I have to say that Hitman Pro is very poor for detecting and removing rogues. I tested it out on this rogue 'My Security Engine' the other day and it found nada, not a thing whereas MBAM found 782 infections and a2 found 726 infections of the rogue. I would not recommend using that for rogues.

I totally agree with Vino about using ComboFix. The author of ComboFix specifically said in the disclaimer that only people are trained can advise and use them and it's not for private use.

Ooooops another thing - rkill is not for sniffing out and removing rootkits. It searches for malicious processes and terminate them so that it can allow you to use other removal tools like MBAM. I also tested rkill out on my test computer with the rogue infection 'My Security Engine' and it found and removed 3 dllhost.exes and after that I can open task manager up again and to run MBAM again.

It found the two rogues I had purposefully infected myself with.

During that test I had tried a few others but SONAR 3 took care of them. Today, Hitman Pro detected one that Avast! 5 Free let in and do all kinds of nasties (SONAR 3 stops it). Only downloaded two other files today, one a rogue and Hitman Pro detected them.

I didn't let Hitman Pro remove anything.