   | Senior Member with 205 posts. | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Newfoundland-Canada Experience: Advanced | | AVG Cant remove rootkit... when i do a scan with AVG it finds this "hidden driver", then it tells me its a root kit and i need to restart to remove it, so i do that and rescan and its back, what should i do? is it really a root kit? what is a root kit? or is it just a windows driver.
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C:/Windows/System32/Drivers/a34jviup.sys |  | Moderator with 36,829 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Vermont | | A rootkit is a driver that takes over the Windows kernel at boot so that it has complete control over your machuine, even being able to hide itself and its activities.
You may need to remove it "offline" when Windows is not running. It some cases, Windows may need to be reinstalled to a clean drive from scratch.
Do a search for bootable anti-virus CD's. There are some free ones around.
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Windows Shell/User | | | Senior Member with 205 posts. | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Newfoundland-Canada Experience: Advanced | | so this thing is BAD? its not just something random that AVG thinks is bad? could you recomend me a good bootable anti virus? im good with computers but i know nothing about bootable anti virus's? also where could i have gotten this root kit? thanks | | | Senior Member with 205 posts. | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Newfoundland-Canada Experience: Advanced | | i just tryed avg again, removed the root kit, then another one with a diff name showed up, and i removed that one and another one with a diff name showed up, i think im screwed and am gonna have to format eh? |  | Senior Member with 1,328 posts. | | | | | |  | Senior Member with 677 posts. | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Mumbai, India Experience: the 9th wonder :P | | | | | | Senior Member with 205 posts. | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Newfoundland-Canada Experience: Advanced | | i went ahead and formatted my computer, thanks for all your help guys, im going to get those root kit scanners just in case of another one, i have no idea where it came from | | | Junior Member with 15 posts. | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Woodbury, TN Experience: Intermediate | | The best scanner and anti-virus I've found is Cyberdefender by far! | | | Senior Member with 677 posts. | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Mumbai, India Experience: the 9th wonder :P | | | |  THIS THREAD HAS EXPIRED.
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