Hidden NIS 21.0.2.1 Rootkit after uninstall

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Just removed NIS 21.0.2.1 and installed the latest Avast 2014, and Avast find there are Hidden Rootkit from NIS and the boot log show hidden files too.....Is Norton/Symantec doing NSA things??


Screenshot:  http://i.imgur.com/CgFgIdi.png

 

 

Avast boot log excerpt: 

 


 avast! Antirootkit, version 1.0
 Scan started: October 16, 2013 19:42:40


 File: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\NISx64\1500020.001\ccSetx64.sys SignCode: 123 0 0
 Service ccSet_NIS [C:\Windows\system32\drivers\NISx64\1500020.001\ccSetx64.sys] **HIDDEN**

 

 File: C:\Program Files (x86)\Norton Internet Security\NortonData\21.0.2.1\Definitions\IPSDefs\20130805.011\IDSVia64.sys SignCode: 123 0 0
 Service IDSVia64 [C:\Program Files (x86)\Norton Internet Security\NortonData\21.0.2.1\Definitions\IPSDefs\20130805.011\IDSVia64.sys] **HIDDEN**

 

 File: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\NISx64\1500020.001\SRTSPX64.SYS SignCode: 123 0 0
 Service SRTSPX [C:\Windows\system32\drivers\NISx64\1500020.001\SRTSPX64.SYS] **HIDDEN**

 

 File: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\NISx64\1500020.001\SYMDS64.SYS SignCode: 123 0 0
 Service SymDS [C:\Windows\system32\drivers\NISx64\1500020.001\SYMDS64.SYS] **HIDDEN**

 

 File: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\NISx64\1500020.001\SYMEFA64.SYS SignCode: 123 0 0
 Service SymEFA [C:\Windows\system32\drivers\NISx64\1500020.001\SYMEFA64.SYS] **HIDDEN**

 


 Scan finished: October 16, 2013 19:43:04
 Hidden files found: 0
 Hidden registry items found: 0
 Hidden processes found: 0
 Hidden services found: 5
 Hidden boot sectors found: 0

 

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Hi orangedog

What Avast may have found is debris Norton files.  In some cases one security software can assess another security software’s files or behaviour as malicious.

Have you run the Norton removal tool and restarted the computer?

 

Norton removal tool.

 

www.Norton.com/nrt

 

 

ATB

 

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