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Spy DLL Remover 4.5

Spy DLL Remover 4.5

...Rootkit processes as well as other spyware processes using multiple (user-land) Rootkit detection algorithms coupled with in-house Process heuristics. This makes it a... Read more

3 March, 2011
CA AntiVirus Plus 7.0.0.115

CA AntiVirus Plus 7.0.0.115

...leaner, meaner and smarter than ever before. The new release offers enhanced rootkit detection and removal. It also offers a visually refined, user-friendly interface... Read more

19 December, 2010

Researchers to demo rootkit on Android phone

...Linux. The Rutgers researchers noted in their paper on the subject that rootkit detection on smartphones poses significant challenges due to to factors such as... Read more

2 June, 2010 by Matthew Broersma
Avtomic Pro 1.0

Avtomic Pro 1.0

...browsing, from malware like viruses, trojans, spyware and other malicious programs. The rootkit detection finds and removes hidden codes through mechanisms of masking. Protection against... Read more

28 April, 2011

McAfee launches free anti-rootkit tool

...110,000 times, said the company. "Rootkit Detective offers the most comprehensive rootkit-detection capabilities available today," said Ahmed Sallam, lead research architect at McAfee... Read more

27 July, 2007 by Tom Espiner
Photos: Intel's science fair

Photos: Intel's science fair

Intel researchers provided an update on its rootkit detection technology, which is still pretty far away from commercialisation but is... Read more

25 June, 2007 by Tom Krazit
Sophos Anti-Rootkit 1.5

Sophos Anti-Rootkit 1.5

...and removes any rootkit that is hidden on your computer using advanced rootkit detection technology. Rootkits can lie hidden on computers and remain undetected by... Read more

9 November, 2009
RootkitRevealer 1.71

RootkitRevealer 1.71

RootkitRevealer is an advanced rootkit detection utility. It runs on Windows NT 4 and higher and its... Read more

21 January, 2009

Zero cost recovery ? part 2: Removing malware

...am so so sorry) The trial version of F-Secure’s Blacklight rootkit detection and elimination tool is worth grabbing. Risking some yawning from the... Read more

2 December, 2008
Rootkits: What you should know

Rootkits: What you should know

Malware-based rootkits fuel a multibillion-dollar spyware industry by stealing financial information, while rootkit-based botnets generate untold amounts of spam. Here's a look at what rootkits are and what to do about them Read more

21 October, 2008 by Michael Kassner
Detect rootkits and rootkit behavior with these techniques

Detect rootkits and rootkit behavior with these techniques

...taken from Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel, discusses two basic approaches to rootkit detection. Rootkits can be difficult to detect, especially when they operate in... Read more

24 April, 2006

Symantec flaw can hide hacker activity

...Sony rootkit, and F-Secure, a Finnish security company that has a rootkit detection product, for helping it address the SystemWorks issue. The Norton update... Read more

12 January, 2006 by Joris Evers
Countering Persistent Kernel Rootkits Through Systematic Hook Discovery

Countering Persistent Kernel Rootkits Through Systematic Hook Discovery

...rootkits by design will attempt to hide its presence from all running rootkit-detection software including various system utility programs (E.g., ps and ls... Read more

5 March, 2010
RootQuest 1.3.15

RootQuest 1.3.15

...and removes any rootkit that is hidden on your computer using advanced rootkit detection systems.RootQuest is a good solution to detection and remove all... Read more

21 April, 2008
A Forced Sampled Execution Approach to Kernel Rootkit Identification

A Forced Sampled Execution Approach to Kernel Rootkit Identification

...perform the most privileged operations on the compromised machine. Most existing kernel rootkit detection techniques attempt to detect the existence of kernel rootkits, but cannot... Read more

16 June, 2007

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