Rootkits - A new wave of invisible malware

Lately there has been a lot of discussion about rootkits and the type of threats they present. This article aims to provide a basic explanation of rootkits and how this low level technology can be used by malware developers to infiltrate computers in a way that is very difficult to detect and remove.

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More Dangerous Rootkits May Lurk On Horizon

Rootkits aren't inherently evil. But malcontents are getting better at using them, and rootkits are getting harder to detect. As the argument rages over whether rootkits can serve a useful purpose, new types of rootkits are emerging that require new methods of detecting and removing them. Rootkits hide processes, files, and network connections and can be written to perform like a device driver on any operating system.

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New Rootkit Detectors

Only a few rootkit-detection tools have received attention: the free RootkitRevealer from sysinternals.com, and F-Secure's ( BlackLight--freeware until September 1). But luckily for us, developers are working on a number of powerful, no-cost tools to detect rootkits.

Read about the others HERE.