Execs say that the newly acquired technology provided by the Komoku purchase allows businesses to better respond to the increased use of rootkits as an attack tool to their networks and systems. The ...

Microsoft security researchers are warning about a new generation of powerful system monitoring programs, or “rootkits,” that are almost impossible to detect using current security products and that ...

Detecting rootkits is bad enough but to also remove them, well, I hope you packed a lunch. The problem with rootkits is that they tend to hook into system calls to improve the stealthy qualities.

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 ...

Sophos PLC has released a free tool to help PC users root out rootkits. Called Sophos Anti-Rootkit, the software will detect and remove both known and unknown rootkits, and it will also warn system ...

Rootkits hide processes, files, and network connections and can be written to perform like a device driver on any operating system. Most people associate rootkits with the questionable practices of ...

Listen to the Computerworld TechCast: Rootkits. If an illegal hacker wants to do something to your system, such as plant a virus, a Trojan horse program or spyware, he has to gain access to the system ...

In this episode of eSpeaks, Jennifer Margles, Director of Product Management at BMC Software, discusses the transition from traditional job scheduling to the era of the autonomous enterprise. eSpeaks’ ...

LAS VEGAS -- Black Hat -- The researchers who publicly challenged Joanna Rutkowska to prove her virtualization-based rootkit is undetectable today said they are ready to release a tool that can detect ...

I've been given a 2 Ghz Acer laptop (4 GB RAM) running Vista. The previous owner believes the Acer is infected with a keylogger put there by her ex-husband.<BR><BR>I want to use the Acer as a gaming ...

chkrootkit is very dumb. Very dumb, very simple.<BR><BR>It's just a series of simple tests that check for signs that are commonly associated with known rootkits.<BR><BR>The test that gets back a false ...