Rootkits?
Bill Stanley
bstanle at wowway.com
Mon Feb 18 17:14:56 UTC 2013
Hi,
I don't really have a problem yet so this is more of a question. If a
dual boot computer using Windows and Linux gets a rootkit installed
while using Windows, will Linux be affected? Lots of what is called
rootkits are not one but just garden variety Windows viruses that are
very good at hiding. What I am talking about are true rootkits.
The second question is if you are confronted by such a beast and the
hard drive is suspect, can the rootkit be eliminated? I am thinking
that you could boot to a Live CD and use a tool such as gparted to
repartition and preferably overwrite EVERY byte in the hard drive
(including the boot sector). Would you get rid of the rootkit that way?
Bill Stanley
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