PCWorld - Privacy Watch: New Rootkit Detectors Help Protect You and Your PC

By Andrew Brandt
Jun 20, 2006

By now you've heard about Windows rootkits--tools malware authors use to hide their evil creations from our antivirus or antispyware software. Because rootkits often hide dangerous viruses, Trojan horses, or spyware, detecting them is important.

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

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