Rootkits

[contempt]

Hey folks,

 

As I was trying to help Sol w/ a problem (MountAppFilesystem() failed: SteamMountAppFilesystem(240,0,0,ox1306fd74) failed with error 1: the registry is in use by another process,timeout expired) and looking for the links to free anti-virus and anti-malware software in "my" Tweaking Companion, I came upon the Rootkit section and decided to download and run RootkitRevealer to scan for rootkits.

 

For info on what a rootkit is and does, visit:

Rootkits - A New Malware Trend

RootkitRevealer v1.71

 

After running the program, I found myself puzzled by the results it came up with:

 

I hope y'all can give me some input on each of these paths, and tell me if they're malicious and need to be deleted.

 

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[Arc]

Don't know about the others but the SecuROM one is to keep you from messing up their retarded copy protection scheme. I don't think it's a rootkit, just more of game DRM type protection scheme.

[contempt]

Thank you, Arc. You could be right. I do know, or so I found out, that the HKLM\...\SAC* and SAI* keys are no rootkits, which leaves two to solve: key 2 and 5.

 

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