You could check at the IP level on a box that's not the compromised
machine. Just launch a sniffer and make sure your on a network that can
see the traffic and see where the actual download is going to. Then
compare that to where it should be going to. I bet rootkit is
redirecting your downloads and just serving malware from that new
location. I would be interested in knowing that if it were true.

Thanks,
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Ali Mesdaq (CISSP, GIAC-GREM)
Security Researcher II
Websense Security Labs
http://www.WebsenseSecurityLabs.com
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Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 2:28 PM
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Subject: Re: [H] Symantec AV went NUTS ?

good idea, nothing in hosts except
127.0.0.1 localhost

all others show nothing suspicious.
think I will do a rootkit scan for grins.
fp

At 11:07 AM 2/11/2008, Mesdaq, Ali Poked the stick with:

>Check your host file c:\windows\drivers\etc\hosts or check which IP 
>your connecting to for downloads. You might have had a trojan mess with

>your dns settings. This could happen in the host file or at a lower 
>level which will be harder to detect.
>
>Thanks,

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