A rootkit entered my PC, what can I do?

[Cookie503]

That depends - do you have any other partitions, e.g. a partition mounted to /home?

Uhhm no.

2 NTFS partitions for windows.
1 ext3 partition for ubuntu
1 for swap.

I used exactly the same configuration before wiping out ubuntu.

[shearn89]

the best way to remove the partition is to boot up with the livecd, hit alt-f2 and type "gksudo gparted", then use that to delete the partition. Select it, delete it, hit apply. Job's a good'un.

[Bothered]

Unless you restored your personal configuration files (files in /home), have configuration files on your Windows partitions that you have in some way set up to be used, have some unformatted partition (e.g. mounted to /home), or some other similar way in which files remain or are recovered from backups, it really shouldn't be possible for settings to remain after a clean install.

[Cookie503]

I did as you said Shearn and after reinstaliing ubuntu, I tried to change the resolution and guess what? The same thing happened, it working fine now, but it's just odd.


Here's a screenshot:

[shearn89]

hmmm. Looks like xorg isn't quite configured correctly - the panel at the top is duplicating everything... Maybe try "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg"? Backup up /etc/X11/xorg.conf first though.

[Cookie503]

Seems to be working fine now, thank you!