On Wed, 03 Jan 2007, "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote:
>From: "Cyberiade.it Anonymous Remailer" <anonymous@remailer.cyberiade.it>
>
>|
>| I spoke too soon. This GMER rootkit thing is definitely an
>| expert level program. It's way over my head, and is certainly
>| over the heads of those regular folks on my mailing list.
>|
>| I'm sure it's a good program for those who understand what
>| it is, and how to make best use of it. It must be, since you
>| and others have recommended it, and since apparently hackers
>| have tried, successfully it seems, to bottleneck their web
>| site from public access. And with all the mirror sites
>| popping up, that means this must be a "must-have" program
>| for all expert-level users.
>|
>| Ckypp
>|
>
>No doubt about it. Gmer (and most anti RootKit utilities) are NOT for the
>novice or casual
>user and requires OS knowledge to weed out the real Kernel constructs vs.
>malware
>constructs.
>
>Gmer is the cream of that anti RootKit crop :-)
>
>--
>Dave
>http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
>http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm


I believe you. I might try playing around with GMER again, but
that's going to be the extent of it. I think about advanced
programs that could mess with the computer's operating system,
like I was tinkering around in a military nuclear missile silo,
unsupervised. I'm really careful not to touch any buttons, knobs
or levers that I don't know exactly what they do.


Ckypp