Tried checking it with an AV ? 
http://quickscan.bitdefender.com 

On Jul 12, 2012, at 12:06 AM, phocean wrote:

> The machine is Windows XP SP3 quite up-to-date, but not fully. Except that 
> Windows Update is not working anymore.
> One of the symptoms. 
> 
> I described the issues there:
> http://www.phocean.net/2012/06/30/rootkit-in-my-lab.html
> http://www.phocean.net/2012/07/11/rootkit-in-my-lab-part-ii.html
> 
> You will see why some symptoms make me think about a rootkit.
> 
> You are right, it could be some Windows being messed up.
> But it actually happened on a pretty fresh install: I finished setting XP and 
> tens of analysis tools (I aimed this box to be my fresh reversing system).
> So even if possible, it sounds strange that a machine gets corrupted so 
> quickly. And of course, I suspect some of these tools, got from multiple 
> downloads.
> At last, I could analyse them one by one of course, but there are many so it 
> would be painful (and I am not sure that I kept all setups).
> 
> --- phocean
> 
> 
> Le 11 juil. 2012 à 22:51, [email protected] a écrit :
> 
>> On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 22:42:42 +0200, phocean said:
>>> I have a lab virtual machine that behaves as if it was owned by a
>>> rootkit: weird behavior with system certificates and keyboard driver.
>> 
>> Out of curiosity, why are you guessing it's a rootkit, rather than just 
>> another
>> case of Windows being messed up and needing fixing?
>> 
>> What release of Windows?  When did it start misbehaving?  Was that
>> anytime near Patch Tuesday?
> 
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