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Applications abruptly terminating in Windows XP / Rootkit Revealer
From: forposts () aol com
Date: 11 May 2006 22:43:55 -0000
Hello everyone, I am trying to determine the cause of abrupt termination of applications in Windows XP Professional. I am honestly wondering if I am just suffering from low memory or too many apps running at once rather than having malware or a malicious software or rootkit installed, but then again, I want to be safe. I did run SysInternals Rootkit Revealer (RKR); it actually came up with about 170 problems after a scan. I did actually try to save the output to a file so that I could digest the significance of all this, but when I tried to do so, RKR abruptly terminated. Some of you are probably saying: "Flatten the system and rebuild!" but here's the rub: I think the RKR output is wrong! You are admonished "For best results exit all applications and keep the system otherwise idle during the RootkitRevealer scanning process." My questions: If you have a lot of stuff running in the system tray, how can you keep the system idle? Can I disable startup items with MSCONFIG and expect a reliable result from RKR? Can anyone point me to good data related to how to use RKR? Comments welcomed. Thanks for your help. Mike
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