I'm about to scream for three straight hours. Seriously. My old computer had the Alureon rootkit, and I bought a new, cheap laptop not three days ago, and now I think it has it, because I'm assuming Alureon got into an external flash drive I used on this laptop. I've used that drive on the netbook I'm currently typing this post on, however, so I'm not sure why this netbook wouldn't also be having problems.
My new laptop is getting random slowdowns after extended use, and it takes an extremely long time to boot up. I've utilized countless anti-malware programs (Security Essentials, Malwarebytes, Kapersky Antivirus, Kaperksy tdsskiller, Hitman Pro 3.5, Spybot Search & Destroy, etc), all to no avail. I had UAC on its second-highest setting in Windows 7 64-bit (third-notch, second-notch from the top), and nothing has helped me. I did a quick scan of the flash drive I inserted using Kapersky Antivirus before copying any files from it.
Does anyone know a method in which I can find out for sure I have the Alureon rootkit on this laptop? I don't know if I have it or not. I've used all those anti-malware programs and none of them have found a thing, so maybe I'm just being paranoid. But I don't understand why my brand new laptop would be acting this way when the only things I've installed are those programs, Chromium and Chrome, Steam, and Windows Live.
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I'm about to scream for three straight hours. Seriously. My old computer had the Alureon rootkit, and I bought a new, cheap laptop not three days ago, and now I think it has it, because I'm assuming Alureon got into an external flash drive I used on this laptop. I've used that drive on the netbook I'm currently typing this post on, however, so I'm not sure why this netbook wouldn't also be having problems.
My new laptop is getting random slowdowns after extended use, and it takes an extremely long time to boot up. I've utilized countless anti-malware programs (Security Essentials, Malwarebytes, Kapersky Antivirus, Kaperksy tdsskiller, Hitman Pro 3.5, Spybot Search & Destroy, etc), all to no avail. I had UAC on its second-highest setting in Windows 7 64-bit (third-notch, second-notch from the top), and nothing has helped me. I did a quick scan of the flash drive I inserted using Kapersky Antivirus before copying any files from it.
Does anyone know a method in which I can find out for sure I have the Alureon rootkit on this laptop? I don't know if I have it or not. I've used all those anti-malware programs and none of them have found a thing, so maybe I'm just being paranoid. But I don't understand why my brand new laptop would be acting this way when the only things I've installed are those programs, Chromium and Chrome, Steam, and Windows Live.
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