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The Max++ Headroom Saga
Dec. 29th, 2009 12:24 amWell, somehow my ex-wife's office computer has been infected by the Max++ rootkit. Nasty, nasty, nasty. I'm going to do my best to help her get it cleaned off, but it's going to take a few days. How this thing slipped past AVG I'll never know - thus far it's been able to keep my own system squeaky clean for years with no problem.
All I know is that Spybot won't touch it, AVG won't detect it, other virus wipers don't even know it's there, and it's buried so deep I'm going to have to use one of the g33k h4xx0rz forums to help me get it "rooted" out.
Unless one of my l337 friends knows a program that will handle this. I'm trying to avoid a clean install like the plague.
I'll keep tabs of what all I do, in case it's useful for someone else.
Yarg!
All I know is that Spybot won't touch it, AVG won't detect it, other virus wipers don't even know it's there, and it's buried so deep I'm going to have to use one of the g33k h4xx0rz forums to help me get it "rooted" out.
Unless one of my l337 friends knows a program that will handle this. I'm trying to avoid a clean install like the plague.
I'll keep tabs of what all I do, in case it's useful for someone else.
Yarg!
