RAIDE Rootkit Elimination Tool Hits Beta

Spurred on by the ongoing cat-and-mouse game between malicious hackers and existing anti-rootkit scanners, a pair of security researchers have teamed up on a new tool that promises a solution to the threat from stealthy malware.

Rootkits are used to modify the flow of the kernel to hide the presence of an attack or compromise on a machine. It gives a hacker remote user access to a compromised system while avoiding detection from anti-virus scanners.

RAIDE offers several unique features that cannot be found in other anti-rootkit tools. Existing anti-rootkit scanners like BlackLight and RootkitRevealer look for registry and file system API discrepancies that may indicate the presence of a user-mode or kernel-mode rootkit, but weaknesses in that approach have been proven.

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