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COMBOFIX, has now been fixed and is again safe to use.

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Old 12-01-2007
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COMBOFIX, has now been fixed and is again safe to use.

It has recently been discovered, that there is a rootkit in the wild that can cause Combofix to start wiping files from hard drives. Therefore, Combofix has been withdrawn and is not safe to use, until further notice.

I urge anyone who has a copy of Combofix to delete it from their system immediately.

Quoted by "sUBs" the author of Combofix:

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I have just encountered a rootkit that will cause CF to recursively delete all files from SystemDrive.

Pulling the tool till further notice.

Please inform your users not to use CF. Who knows if that rootkit is in there.

Please spread the word. Also have users delete their copies of CF
I have temporarily stickied this thread, until the situation has been resolved.

Regards Howard
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