Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Rootkit vs. Sleep Mode
The other day I had a laptop that we redirecting on web pages and refusing to come out sleep mode. I mistakenly choose the sleep mode problem as the greater concern since redirection is no problem with the amount of virus cleanups the shop has seen in the past couple of years. After spending far to much time trying to repair the sleep mode and concluding the solution was to use hibernate and that it was just a case of another random failure in windows sleep mode I turned to the redirection issue. The cause was one of the newer style of the zero access rootkit. After scrubbing the drive clean of all traces of the rootkit low and behold the sleep mode was perfectly operational again. Lesson learned when faced with a broken sleep mode check for infections playing around in the system.
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