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A rootkit, like a cloak of invisibility, is a program that conceals the presence of an application on a computer. Installing itself silently, it stays concealed by hiding processes, files, network traffic and other observable information about itself from the computer user. Rootkits typically hide utilities that make it easy for attackers to return to a compromised system. Rootkits aren’t easily detected and since no single vendor reliably detects all rootkits, it can be beneficial to work with more than on
Panda AntiRootkit, like Sophos, has a GUI and allows for command-line options. Also like Sophos, it identifies known rootkits and suspicious rootkit behaviors indicative of unknown rootkits and provides the option of removing them along with their associated registry entries, processes and files. Panda AntiRootkit looks for hidden files, registry entries, drivers, processes, execution hooks and does an excellent job of ferreting out possible rootkits. Panda AntiRootkit runs on Windows 2000, XP and 2003. It
If one of the rootkit scanners mentioned above doesn’t do it for you, you can also run additional rootkit detection and removal tools such as:
Software Clues -
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