thanks, Scott! just ran RootkitRevealer, and i don't really understand it yet, but i feel a lot safer already :-) It's always good to be ahead of the bad guys. Scott McNay wrote: > Hi folks, > > I should read SlashDot more often... > > > IT: SysInternals Releases RootkitRevealer > Security > Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 23, @09:58AM > from the have-you-been-pwn3d-lately dept. > > Brian writes "In the wake of news that Microsoft is developing > prototype software to detect rootkits, SysInternals has released a > free rootkit detection tool named RootkitRevealer for all Windows > systems NT4+. RootkitRevealer works by "comparing the results of a > system scan at the highest level with that at the lowest level," and > detects every known rootkit at rootkit.com. They also report that it > is impossible to know for sure that a given system is clean from > within it, but that defeating their tool would require a level of > sophistication not yet seen. You can download RootkitRevealer." > > http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/02/18/1920244.shtml?tid=201 > http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/rootkitreveal.shtml -- -------list-services-below----------- Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at http://www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at http://www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Latest news live feeds at http://modecideas.com/indexhomenews.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.