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QUESTION POSED ON: 15 March 2006
After scanning with Sysinternals Rootkit Revealer, how do you remove the possible threats it located. There are no options to do that. Do you just go to the threat located path and delete the registry entry or should you use a Spyware removal tool?

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Fortunately, I haven't had the need to remove a rootkit discovered by Rootkit Revealer. Mark Russinovich of Sysinternals (the creators of RootkitRevealer) wrote a detailed article about how it works in the June 2005 issue of Windows IT Pro if you're interested in more details. Click here for the article. (NOTE: It's for subscribers only.) If that doesn't help, I'd contact the authors directly.

Their email addresses are listed at http://www.sysinternals.com/AboutUs.html.


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