rootkit A Rootkit infected to my PC

[satirewalker0606]

My computer was infected with a Rootkit and I started to clean it, but the only problem was that I could not install BIOS Flash on my USB memory without installing the operating system, because EZ Flash only supports FAT32 and I have to install the operating system with NTFS, and I do not have a second computer. So I had to install the operating system and then install the BIOS flash into the USB. and I flashed my BIOS. My computer was fixed, but is there still a virus injected or can it be infected again? Thank you for your help.

-Regards, satirewalker

[da na]

It can be infected again if you download a virus again. I doubt you had to reflash the BIOS, often just reinstalling Windows does the trick. But if you have completely wiped every drive the malware should be gone.

[Erioch]

I ain't scrolling all the way to the right to read this.

[satirewalker0606]

3 minutes ago, da na said:

It can be infected again if you download a virus again. I doubt you had to reflash the BIOS, often just reinstalling Windows does the trick. But if you have completely wiped every drive the malware should be gone.

Rootkit doesnt gone after re-install Windows i m needed flash my bios and virus is gone! but i m worry about the re-infect

[Needfuldoer]

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My computer was infected with a Rootkit and I started to clean it, but the only problem was that I could not install BIOS Flash on my USB memory without installing the operating system, because EZ Flash only supports FAT32 and I have to install the operating system with NTFS, and I do not have a second computer. So I had to install the operating system and then install the BIOS flash into the USB. and I flashed my BIOS. My computer was fixed, but is there still a virus injected or can it be infected again? Thank you for your help.

-Regards, satirewalker

You could always pick up a couple cheap flash drives from the store. They'll probably be formatted as FAT32 right out of the package.

 

Reflashing your BIOS shouldn't be necessary for cleaning an infection. Erasing your drive and writing a new partition table is more than enough.

[Agall]

15 minutes ago, satirewalker0606 said:

Rootkit doesnt gone after re-install Windows i m needed flash my bios and virus is gone! but i m worry about the re-infect

It would only re-infect if you download the same rootkit or if it wormed to another device on your network. Considering you don't have another PC, you're probably fine.

Just be safe on the internet and don't get infected again  

[ccnow]

44 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

You could always pick up a couple cheap flash drives from the store. They'll probably be formatted as FAT32 right out of the package.

 

Reflashing your BIOS shouldn't be necessary for cleaning an infection. Erasing your drive and writing a new partition table is more than enough.

I don't know exactly what this user is dealing with, but I did want to pop in here to point out that BIOS level rootkit infections that persist through OS reinstalls and drive replacements are a thing.

[satirewalker0606]

6 hours ago, Agall said:

It would only re-infect if you download the same rootkit or if it wormed to another device on your network. Considering you don't have another PC, you're probably fine.

Just be safe on the internet and don't get infected again  

Yeah i know that i m just try to say i m previously still have a Rootkit on my BIOS while i m formatting the drives and that BIOS rootkit (before i m flashing bios) can re infect to my hdd?

[Fasauceome]

1 hour ago, satirewalker0606 said:

i m previously still have a Rootkit on my BIOS while i m formatting the drives

if you have a root kit, don't put new hard drives on that motherboard before you flash a completely new BIOS. You can pass the infection that way.

 

Quarantine the existing drive, format the contaminated drive, then format the BIOS with a BIOS flash.

[E-waste]

@satirewalker0606

 

It is very unlikely that you have a rootkit, and less so that it is inside your motherboard firmware.  Do you have data to prove which file or files have been added to your system?

 

Here are some suggestions:

 

Use Mozilla Firefox browser for privacy and trackers blocking, and install the browser addon NoScript.  It will prevent websites from running any scripts on a website when set to "untrusted".

 

Most websites need the main website scripts to load, so you'd need to enable every website in noscript as you visit them.  I do this, and it's very easy.

 

A simpler way is to use privacy badger, developed by the https://eff.org

 

It won't stop malicious websites scripts though, which is why I mentoin NoScript.

 

A second more effective way to protect yourself from malware online is to browse the web in a virtual machine.  It sounds very complex, but it is very easy.

 

Open Windows software store and download Ubuntu (translates to harmony).  This installs a computer operating system that runs in a virtual space.  It is designed to not transfer to your regular system.  Also, Ubuntu, even in this virtual style, is far more secure than Windows, and there are only around 40 known viruses for the system, all of which need your password for system access.  This is because Ubuntu is a Linux system, and Linux literally runs the Internet, all the way from network switches, network routers, firewalls, and web servers, it's all Linux.  All top 500 super-computers run Linux too, as well as the International space station, and voyager 1, 2 and the mars rover, all using Linux.

 

This way you can browse the web, and not only are you using a far more secure system, there are not many vectors of malware for Linux, if some unthinkable way, you did get malware on Linux, it would not be able to traverse out of the virtual system.

[Grant M]

On 1/10/2024 at 1:10 PM, satirewalker0606 said:

My computer was infected with a Rootkit and I started to clean it, but the only problem was that I could not install BIOS Flash on my USB memory without installing the operating system, because EZ Flash only supports FAT32 and I have to install the operating system with NTFS, and I do not have a second computer. So I had to install the operating system and then install the BIOS flash into the USB. and I flashed my BIOS. My computer was fixed, but is there still a virus injected or can it be infected again? Thank you for your help.

-Regards, satirewalker

Do you have a phone? If you have one you can use a usb adapter to get the new bios on a usb, or if your phone has an sd card slot add the files to the sd card to that usb, then plug it in with an adapter to your pc. I had to do this too, because of my bios not supporting my cpu and ram.