Posted: 6/2/2010 7:21:07 AM EDT
| I ran rkill and it terminated the antivirus provided by my ISP. WTF? |
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Here's a link to a site that discusses what rkill does, and what it doesn't do
http://www.technibble.com/rkill-repair-tool-of-the-week/ Were you trying to kill a malware process that was infecting your computer? Or did you think rkill was going to do something else, like fix an infection? |
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The creator notes that it "kills rogue processes", so that you can clean them out with an malware remover, like Malwarebytes. He also notes that a reboot will let those process function again.
I speculate that rkill interpreted your antivirus as a rogue process, even though it was acting exactly as designed. (One of the jobs of an antivirus program would be to kill 'bad' files that get into your system.) I think once you reboot, your antivirus should function normally. Or, you may have to re-install it. Good luck! |