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Ok, I work with virus-infested computers and laptops a LOT. I would like to find a good tool that will reveal ALL folders/files. Some viruses use clever techniques in folder hiding. Like the program Ardamax - their keyloggers create a folder in system32 that if you don't know the name of it, you will not be able to find it through explorer (even if you go to folder options and uncheck "hide system files/folders".)

Any suggestions?

EDIT:

I posted a solution on this page below

[ipivb]

Whenever I get a virus that bad, I pretty much resort to reinstalling windows.

Note I said reinstall, not reformat. If you have at least a few GB of hard drive space left, you can split the partition of your hard drive and reinstall windows on the new partition. Boot from that partition, and if you wish, copy all of your needed files over to the new partition and then delete it so you have one partition again. This way, you can keep all of your files without using an external hard drive or using tons of DVDs.

However, there are a few viruses which are so nasty, they will literally infect every single .exe on your computer (often causing them to not work anymore). This is rare, however, but in this case, you will have to ditch all of your .exe programs and redownload/reinstall them on a clean installation of windows.

A good program I'd recommend is WinPatrol. Instead of being the typical antivirus which scans programs and determines their danger based off of constantly updated signature (and more often than not, being unable to take any action against them), WinPatrol simply warns you whenever it detects a new startup program, registry entry, etc. It's nothing like UAC where it pops up all the fking time and doesn't give you any information. Instead it gives you the exact file name, and asks you whether to allow it or not.

Viruses are more commonly infecting through a somewhat fatal flaw of Java. Sometimes you will visit a website where it makes a Java popup asking if you want to run this application... the problem being that the popup doesn't look that suspicious, and sometimes it will keep asking until you click yes (sometimes accidentally). Which you are then infected.

[atom0s]

Helpful rootkit detection tool:
http://www.gmer.net/

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[atom0s]

If your system is currently infected it could be the virus itself attempting to prevent you from opening it. It's a fairly well known tool so it tends to land up on blacklists inside of viri frequently. I use it frequently for the hook detection and have no issues with it at all.

Perhaps you have something else conflicting with it too, what was the bluescreen message / stop code you got when you ran it?

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[atom0s]

Try renaming gmer's executable, or run the generated download on their page to see if you can get it to run under a different name.

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[satanrules666]

you can use event manager to see bsod messages instead of waiting to see a bluescreen that may disapear when ya pc restarts

o see you can spell my name backwards

somehow on here im hated just for having a name such as satanrules666 who would have thaught ae

as for viruses and all i always have my blackbox my 1 terabyte external sata 2 seagate drive which was a old hard drive of mine i had siting around and that contains everything to date not connected to the net and i scan everything i use theres always a false positive with a trainer though

i can normally tell if i have a virus just from decrease in proformance

anyway i use windows live essentials why you ask this is the only anti virus i dont get a bsod from seems my sapphire hd5850 hates old games and it hates antivir

much in the same way i am hated lol