What kinds of rootkit scanners are available? There are a variety of rootkit scanners available. GMER is free and scans aggressively. The output can be difficult to read, but the program does ...

The detectors themselves typically work by comparing different views of the system and seeing where there's a mismatch. One of the original ways to perform this kind of detection was to dump a ...

Rootkits are still a security scanner’s worst nightmare: New rootkit detection tests recently conducted by AV-Test.org found that security suites and online Web scanners detected overall only a little ...

A newly discovered rootkit may not be particularly threatening in itself, but its unique method of concealment could pave the way for more malicious exploits, researchers say. Symantec and F-Secure ...

The problem with rootkits is that they tend to hook into system calls to improve the stealthy qualities. Unlike most bots and viruses that run as executable code and are fairly easy to check/destroy ...