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Blank Windows Screen or ISAPNP.sys Hang = A Zero Bytes .Sys Driver

By malwarekilla on July 29, 2010 in Anti-Malware HowTo

I had one hell of a mystery on my hands the other day. A client called me and said she had a blank screen every-time she booted up her Windows XP computer. I was pretty busy, so I told her I’d pick it up and work on it over the weekend. I just figured it [...]

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New Rootkit Patches MOUSE.DRV

By malwarekilla on June 22, 2010 in Client Notes

I ran across 2 rootkits this week that hid inside of Mouse.drv (in Windows\System32). Both PC’s had CPU’s pegged to 100% from 2 processes running at 50% each. The processes were svchost.exe and services.exe. I tried to run GMER and Combofix in safemode, but neither would finish their scans. Eventually I had to use my [...]

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Atapi.sys Rootkit is EVERYWHERE!

By malwarekilla on December 8, 2009 in Malware News

Man…every client I’ve seen for the past 2 weeks who was infected with malware also had this Atapi.sys rootkit. I know I’ve written about this about 2 weeks ago, but I wanted to keep this fresh. If you’re searches are getting redirected and you’ve scanned with just about every thing you can think of then [...]

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