Oh, I have some rootkit scanners, and I didn't think of running those. I'll run that today. Haven't used USB drives since but that's a good precaution. I did of course back up the data to my external hard drive. So I guess I should scan the external drive?
Karen > I agree. You probably had a rootkit. If at all possible, I would > recommend you pull the drive, stick it in another system (that has fully up > to > date AV and all OS patches), and scan it. Once a system is infected, it can > be very hard to clean from itself. By putting the drive in another system, > you don't give the virus/trojan/rootkit a chance to hook into the OS and > redirect file I/O to its own ends. > Also, if you used any USB drives or other writable removable storage > on the system while it was infected, you should scan them on a known clean > system. Same for any backups you made while the system was infected.
