god i never realised how much better their audio has gotten

you could also protect yourself by disconnecting from the internet, taking apart your pc and locking every component in a different safe box in different countries.

"Cyber criminals" Oh you mean Riot games anti-cheat

I love how Linus change what he is reading on the monitor across him with a secret button hooked on his belt under his shirt.

Malwarebytes has a separate root kit scanner now

great, now I'm paranoid.

Im here because of Valorants Vanguard AntiCheat LUL.

TL;DR YOU DON'T WANT A ROOTKIT.

Types of Viruses as fast as possible please

In theory, there could be build "rootkit" method that could already be implemented to your monitors to send data trough hidden wifi signals or build into custom tailored motherboard or in every single consumer motherboard. And even servers too that would require physically altering the hardware itself that they actually already are doing.

Who's here after people are calling Valorant's anti-cheat a rootkit?

starts buffering at "system slow down" =|

So this is what Riot Vanguard is for Valorant.

whos here because of Valorant?

So what happens if you work on a virtual machine, can you still get infected with a rootkit on your Base OS?

Please do more of these. Has Techquickie done over hashes/hash types, or pw cracking softwares?

Get this Valorant out of my pc lol

Delete System32, it's a root kit

Ah yes Valorant anti cheat

Sony spreading more STDs than Limewire and kazaa😂😂

I will never forget the time my sister installed a 'game' that turned out to contain a rootkit. Kind of the best thing that could have happened. I had to install Linux until I could buy a new windows key and never went back! :D

The feeling when Linus says "You guessed it" and you said the correct answer.

I got a particularly nasty rootkit that legitimately destroyed my hard drive to the point that its impossible to boot off of or store data without corruption.

good video, but seriously. little bits is possibly one of the coolest things i have ever seen. I can see future me buying at least a couple kits just to play with and learn a new hobby. How do you get the coolest sponsors?

Thanks for the information, Linus, now I've enabled Secure Boot and switched to UEFI only from Legacy mode.

And here I was thinking Rootkit was just the name of a music artist on Monstercat, lol.

Just had the nasty "Windows Process Manager" rootkit, could not get rid of it without reformatting my entire PC and OS. Now I will always trust my anti virus warnings.

My Antivirus(Avast) has the option to create a USB Drive that I can boot off so i can check also the Kernel and even BIOS/UEFI.

I'm surprised there wasn't a Rootkit (Artist on Monstercat) song in this video, it would of made it perfect.

I love how the audio on this channel went echo -> no echo -> echo again over time. lol Probably has to do with the super high ceiling in their new office, I guess.

these things are devastating... Im was disabled at a middling age, contracted Guillain-Barre at 32, and it costed me everything. I was an avid PC gamer then, but wasnt able to stay with it with my quite modest disability income.. a little more than year ago, I had decided to set some funds back little by little and finally build me a decent PC, got a GTX 1080, Ryzen 7 3700X, and a 16GB Team Group Xtreem ARGB 3200kit, and about 6 weeks ago, I finally got the last piece of my build purchased, an ASUS Hero VIII mainboard, I was elated... and as it is right now, I no longer have that PC as it was virtually destroyed by a BIOS/ACPI rootkit and I didnt have the funds to get professional services to get in dealt with, Im not certain, but I believe the rootkit originated from the Hero mainboard as I bought it openbox. and through my network in my apartment, it also infected my Android-based TV box... so now Im basically living in the stone ages after all that saving funds ! Nor could I return or get replaced any of the hardware I had purchased as my Amazon, Newegg and Paypal accounts, along with Facebook, Twitter etc, were hijacked from me and Ive yet been unable to recover them. Im absolutely devastated. All I can say is, as a safety measure... avoid "open box" purchases if you can, these rootkits can take everything from you !

why do you keep touching your right hip? are you adjusting volume or teleprompter speed?

This channel is awesome. Every time I'm like "I don't even know what rootkits are, but I might as well know everything about them!".

Would flashing the BIOS with new firmware remove a BIOS rootkit, or would the rootkit prevent that/reinfect the newly flashed?

thanks for amplifing that feeling of hopelessness

This guy did a great job of explaining Rootkits👍😎

I had that music rootkit. Messed up my CD drive. Never recovered.

school teachers said I couldnt get into there computers well 5 mins and one rootkit later im on a teachers pc right now

I got a rootkit once from a Bellsouth DSL Install CD and since the PC had to be directly on the DSL modem to initialise it the PC got infected almost instantly by malware that was aware of the rootkit.

If you were to get a rootkit in your bios could you just reflash the bios? or would it flash itself onto the new bios?

_Riot Vanguard_

One of the most sinister forms of malware prevalent today is the dreaded DRM. SecuROM OP, plz nerf.

Whoopp 360p Club.

So if I had a rootkit in my chipset driver, would it help to re-install the mainboards chipset with the official driver?

If it does not give the attacker kernel access, it is not a root kit. Your distinction at 1:58 is not a distinction between 2 types of root kits, but the distinction between root kit and not a root kit. Specifically a root kit is a set of software or hardware components that allow you to run arbitrary code as the root user (or in the windows world, as the system user). That necessarily gives you the attacker authority to modify kernel code running on the system. Also i'm disappointed you didn't mention infected USB as part of this video. Focusing on downloads only does the community a disservice.

The Echo... Linus! the Echo!

Oh i remember trying out Littlebits! I think I am gonna wish it for Christmas.

YOUR ANIMATIONS WERE UNBELIEVABLE I DO NOT KNOW HOW DO YOU DESIGN YOUR VIDEO.

I had a virus that placed itself onto the MBR, so after removal, every time the pc was restarted, the virus would be back in action! But there was a simple fix which involved the Windows 7 install CD, which replaced that corrupted MBR. I went through pages on multiple forums until I found the solution, so I went back to said forums and spread the GOSPEL! :p

Got a rootkit in Linux ? Delete /usr. it's where they are.

4:02 is that a Hp Compaq nc6320?

Just a quick idea for this old video you guys did a while back the people in lmg that know enough about it should have a contest where four people try to repair a computer that has had a rootkit deployed on it and the person that fixes it the fastest wins The Challenge at the same time you could explain a little bit more in detail about how rootkits are fixed and precautionary steps to take to stop them or to fix them just a idea for some more cool videos

valorant: *i'm going to pretend I didn't see that*

I have a choice between 144p and 1080p HAHA.

Thanks a lot Linus, this cleared a lot of things for me :)

Its funny that you uploaded because I was thinking about rooting my htc one m8

What reason is there to get new graphics drivers any place else but the manufacturer site?

@Techquickie Looks like littlebits moved, that's clever thou DIY circuits.

0:50 on UNIX/POSIX files ARE settings, as everything is a file.

My question I've got is can you have a root kit on your phone if you have a bootloader that can't be unlocked? In other word's your phone is un-rootable at the time. Can you still have a root kit installed on your phone?

COME ON DOWN TO LITTLE BITS

This video reminded me of how much I hate the English language for saying "colonel" as "kernel"

Suspected that i was infected by a rootkit. So i did a reset on my PC and deleted all partitions. After setting everything back up there still was a Windows.old folder at my c: drive with all the stuff pre-reset despite being pretty sure that i deleted everything. Could it be that the rootkit managed to create a backup of the old windows somewhere deeper before doing the reset?

so i read that Windows 8.1 has UEFI w/c is supposed to keep rootkits from running during bootup, can we safely assume that Windows 10 is even safer if not impervious to rootkit attack?

Anyone know the music producer named Rootkit? That's where I first heard that word

Im glad I watched this before downloading Valorant

Been there with the Star Force copy protection some years ago thanks to a Codemasters Game, a major pain...

3 months ago I downloaded some damn irritating malware. I scanned it with antivirus and deleted it and restarted the computer. After about 30 minutes my antivirus popped up a message that it detected a virus - again - and put it into quaranteen. I dont know what kind of malware it was but right after the antivirus quaranteened the malware it showed that it detected another one. It was the same thing in the same folder just with a different number at the end of the file that was quaranteened. When I tried to remove it with SUPERAntispyware , the damn thing froze it and couldnt remove it. I dont know how but I finally got rid of it but after that, still, everyday for the upcoming 3 days I was scanning my PC with anivirus and antimalware before I did anything else.

You may not see cheaters in Valorant one day, in exchange your GPU may be hijacked to mine whatevercoin until it sears itself.

Valorant has a rootkit, be carefull

so if a rootkit gets int the bios....what would u do?

Hmm...what if you have a motherboard with a dual bios? Can't you just flick the switch and boot into the second one and then flash a new one to the first?

I thought this was going to be a video about rooting android phones :P

it sounds like a really helpful tool for Android

Holy SHIT. I didn't realize how much better LTT has gotten at clean audio

I am positive I have one i detected and it runs in my task manager as a server host process, except its only an icon with no name, and it takes up about half my CPU power, not sure what to do, afrade to remove something important if i try

A little things to prevent most attacks witch malware: Use NoScript in your Browser! And if you youally want to stay on the safe site, go with Linux (also good for those who want to test a Rootkit themself (Metasploid seams to work really good))

Tencent btw. China btw

I love how linus implied Sony were distributing malware 1:45

are there any cases where a user should be seeing a rootkit in a healthy computer? Or is every and all things labeled "rootkit" bad?

No one: Literally No one: Me watching this video after downloading Valorant..

Recommended after watching someordinadygamer's video about Valorant

hey guys, i am wondering how i can fix my pc problem. when ever i boot my pc a black sceen and text comes up saying "boot error" to get my pc working i just click the enter key 2-4 times. this works ok, but i am just trying to find a permanent fix. ( i built my pc 3 months ago )

Soo... basically there’s no way to know if you been rootkit so if I think I have been, then I’m screwed?

Ping as fast as possible plz !

*Happy Tencent noises*

would reinstalling a BIOS work on a rootkit?

This explains what happened to my computer a month or so ago. Couldn't update drivers and just got BsoD whenever I tried

internet aids basically

Wow, 360p club.

This is new for me. thanks for the advice

Wait... Does Linus STILL work for NCIX? I still see him in their videos...

Hello can you guys make me a pc part list: 1. I want the most powerful gaming beast 2.I dont mind about budget it can go up to 50.000$ 3. Plus monitors,gaming set

Who’s here cos of Doom Eternal?

The book that one of my CE classes has me read says that one way to prevent malware from having full administrative access to your computer is to create a standard user (or any non-admin user) and use that as your primary account. I assume that the malware only has access as far as the account it's on does, is that true? Also, if that is true, it won't help much if the malware uses a keylogger. It is another step though.

Valorant brought me here

360p club

I feel bad Dennis is becoming a running joke omg I laughed so hard.

TDSSKiller came in helpful a few times when I got infected with rootkits

3:38 'Secure boot' Why did my high school have to give us Toshiba laptops, of all possible brands?