It was only a matter of time rootkits now effect 64bit OS

[Galdorf]

TDL3 rootkit x64 goes in the wild
Now anti-rootkit developers will have to develop software to run on 64 bit OS.

 

[14049752]

Great....
Hopefully it's easily removed by repairing the MBR.

 

[iisjman07]

I heard somewhere that it was never impossible to create a 64bit rootkit, just much much more difficult

 

[stro]

Funny read this post an hour ago, and half an hour ago had a machine that came in that comes up clean on every scan except AVG, which shows a virus attached to explorer, svchost, and one other windows system process. I found the rootkit in sys32/drivers and had already deleted it. But AVG was still tripping along with not being able to do windows updates. Saw on another forum talking about the exact same rootkit as this article, and to run tdsskiller from kaspersky, and it popped it out of the mbr. The infected machine was xp pro though, not anything x64

 

[Xander]

I've been running TDSS Killer on everything for a while now. About 1/5 seem to have had it; I think they were all XP.

 

[Jonathan]

If anyone managed to capture the files, I'd love to infect a computer and have a go at removing...haven't encountered a 64bit rootkit yet...

 

[MobileTechie]

That's handy seeing as TDSSKiller is just about the only rootkit detector running 64bit

 

[jscx93]

I actually ran into this a few days ago,

I tried TDSS killer and it would not remove it from the MBR, so i did a little searching and discovered Hitman Pro. It did it in one scan (its a cloud scanner and fast as all can be) and 10 minutes later it was rootkit free.

I know it is listed somewhere on here, but here is a link

http://www.surfright.nl/en

It supports 32 and 64 bit, and I love it so far.