Re: Help, possible rootkit

[Marcus Merrin <marcus.merrin () emptyair com>]

BillyBob wrote:

> I have noticed that my XP system is behaving like I have a rootkit.
>
> - My mouse is jumpy (it freezes for a second when I move it around the
> desktop) and the minimized Taskmanager in the systray shows I have around
> 25 - 30 % usage, but when I open it, there is no process listed using this
> much.
> - I did a netstat, fport, openports and none of these show that I have any
> odd ports open or any connections established.
> - even when I disconnect from the Internet these symptoms do not stop.  They
> stop if I reboot, but then start again.
>
> I have ran VICE, Klister, PatchFinder and RkDetect from rootkit.com and they
> could not find anything.
>
> Any more suggestions ?
> Any more rootkit finding tools for Windows ?
>
> Thanks
> Bill
>
>
>
>  
I had similar symptoms on an XP notebook.... turned out one of two 
memory cards had got dislodged and the box was running on half its 
normal memory.  Took me a couple of days to figure it out (Duh!)

Marcus