[SOLVED] Anyway to get rid of rootkit?

[dota2er]

My Kaspersky detected rootkit in my system memory over a year, but it is never able to eliminated the rootkit. Anyway to clean it? Thanks!

 

[RealBeast]

My Kaspersky detected rootkit in my system memory over a year, but it is never able to eliminated the rootkit. Anyway to clean it? Thanks!

You cannot be sure to eliminate it once you are in the OS, so my go to tool is the free Kaspersky Rescue Disk 18. The other choice would be to do a secure erase and clean install.

 

[dota2er]

You cannot be sure to eliminate it once you are in the OS, so my go to tool is the free Kaspersky Rescue Disk 18. The other choice would be to do a secure erase and clean install.

I heard of reinstall the OS would be the best way, and do I need to worry if the rootkit infect my bios? Thanks

 

[RealBeast]

I heard of reinstall the OS would be the best way, and do I need to worry if the rootkit infect my bios? Thanks

It is very uncommon but if you suspect it, do a secure erase followed by a bios update, which should cure any problem other than something of incredible sophistication that is pretty unlikely for a home machine.

 

[william p]

You might give Malwarebytes Anti Rootkit Beta a try. Good detection, but I had to reinstall also. It's free so nothing to lose.

 

[G Master]

Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT). Do it to it!

 

[william p]

If you need to use the computer you can sidestep the rootkit by unplugging the infected drive and run a LINUX Live DVD. This will take a while to load the OS from that drive but once running it's all in RAM and works OK. I use DVD because nothing can be written back to it.
If you're actually having a persistent high level attack like that it may be necessary to do this.