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Thank you, Peter, for your very informative and helpful comment.
Your contributions to this and other giveaway sites are much appreciated.Kidan
Kidan jnab ki hal chal
Let’s try it without the quote to see if that works!
@jayk
Hi! I am not defending this software, I do not know much about it and since I never use it I decided to uninstall the v11.80 that I had. What I can tell you is that Soft Organizer uninstalled it, found 117(?) traces and removed those. I have IObit Uninstaller as a backup and that popped up with its “all traces of the uninstalled program have been removed” notification. I then ran a full scan with Kerish Doctor and it found no traces of the program in any of the areas it scans. I then ran Glary Utilities, especially noting the Registry Cleaner portion and no traces of this program are found. Beyond that, I cannot explain why traces are remaining on your computer. If you give me an exact line/name of an entry, I will be happy to search for it on my laptop.One other thing I could suggest trying is download the free program IObit Unlocker from their site. (it’s a great little program when something is stuck) Once done, point it towards the registry entry, choose “Unlock & Delete” from the dropdown menu and see if it removes it for you. Let me know.
Odd, I posted the above reply 3-4 times since yesterday and including jayk’s comment the I was replying to quoted and it never got posted. Now, when I did it without the quoted comments, it posted. Now that the sale is ended, hope he/she sees it. :-/
Thanks, [@jayk], I try to share what I’ve got.
I wish more folks would share more than one-liners.
And I wish Ashraf would put the reviews and the discussions on this page because at least for Greatis Unhackme, the reviews are full of discussion, so read [ https :// sharewareonsale. com/s/unhackme-sale ] too, there’s lots there.
I forgot to report on rootkit revealers and cleaners, and it’s been a long time since I had to deal with a rootkit, so I really have no recent experience even seeing one.
I tend to dismount any misbehaving drive, read it as an external drive in another computer ( that is protected by anti-malware ), rebuilt the MBR Master Boot Record and or track zero and or the FAT File Allocation Table and or the directories, perform surface recovery with no-free SpinRite and or not free HDDRegenerator or free HD Sentinel, copy out the data, using a data recovery program, even free Piriform [ Recuva ] sometimes gets what I am after, and I often see free versions of EaseUS [ Data Recovery Wizard ] and equivalent from many others such as MiniTool and so on ( I always search [ “free ___” and “compare free ___” then download and try a few things, and I hardly ever end up having to directly pay for the utilities I need … but I was a beta tester for SpinRite, and later, unrelated HDDRegenerator proved to be a terrific alternative using completely different technology, so I now have various ways to recover magnetic media ), then return the bad drive to the original computer, blank it, surface-test and verify it, re-partition it, re-format it, re-install the operating system, and re-install software, which produces a working computer with absolutely no infections, fresh and new, and usually take less time than endlessly trying to fix a bad infection and hoping I got it and there are no “holes” left behind after removing it – like a bullet wound, removing the bullet is only half the solution, we then have to heal the damage, and none of the anti-malware programs have healing capabilities after they remove a virus, hence the need to rebuild from fresh scratch anyway … and if we know we are going to rebuild anyway, then removing the virus is a waste of time because we are going to do a destructive surface-write-read-test over it anyway.
I share all of that to remind folks that no problem is so big it cannot be run from, sometimes we need to explore non-linear alternatives and not getting stuck on thinking about a problem in only one way, with only one approach, with only one piece of software.
For rootkit tools, folks can look at the free software list at [ https :// www. bleepingcomputer. com/download/search/?keyword=root+kit ] for some tools, I’ve used them all, they seem okay, but hey, if we don;t have a rootkit, how would we know?
Free [ Rootkit Revealer ] from SysInternals is 13 years old, and that’s probably the last time I dealt with a rootkit, if I remember, rootkits are blind to remote control, and free tools from SysInternals allowed me to initiate a remote-control session right on the same computer, no network or other computer needed, and then I could dig, find, and eliminate the rootkit while I was in a terminal session, remoting in to myself, very clever, like removing a nail from a car tire while the car is driving down the road, but computers defy analogies, and it worked rather easily – now, however, Rootkit Revealer just immediately exits, with Windows saying [ Program has stopped ] error on my current Windows 7 64 Pro, so I do not think it works on currently updated computers.
Also, I recall that Sony BMG themselves was responsible for installing a rootkit via their music CDs in an attempt to prevent people ripping Sony BMG music, it then provided a hidden open door for others to gain root permission access so they appear as authentic parts of the authorized operating system so anti-malware programs that load later were denied the ability to see and control such invaders, Sony BMG sort of apologized and released workarounds, but people can still play older Sony BMG music CDs today and still get infected by the rootkit, it’s not like they collected all the music CDs and shred them and issued free replacements, they are still out there in aging CD collections that folks might be recycling and new folks trying to even just play their parent’s old funny shiny disky thingies ( hey, folks, what’s this stack of AOL plastic thingies with shiny metal sliders on ’em for? ).
Our fellow contributors at [ https ://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Rootkit ] suggest alternative programs for detecting ( and eliminating ? repairing after ? ) rootkits:
– Microsoft Sysinternals RootkitRevealer ( for XP )
– Avast Antivirus
– Sophos Anti-Rootkit
– F-Secure
– Radix
– GMER
– WindowsSCOPE
– Microsoft’s monthly Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool is able to detect and remove some classes of rootkits
– Windows Defender Offline can remove rootkits
– UEFI Unified Extensible Firmware Interface is designed to address the threat of rootkits
– TXT Intel Trusted Execution Technology verifying that servers remain in a known good state
– Microsoft Bitlocker’s encryption of data-at-rest verifies that servers are in a known “good state” on bootup
– PrivateCore vCage secures data-in-use ( memory ) in concert with Intel TXTSome resources refer to bootkits and rootkits, a distinction without much of an essential difference in what we have to do to find, kill, and repair after them.
Does anyone want to add Greatis Unhackme to that Wikipedia page?
