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 ...

Grisoft Software, the developer of AVG Internet security products, introduced Tuesday a free product aimed at detecting and removing rootkits. Rootkits, a specific malware type which hides in other ...

The Sophos rootkit tool is actually fairly useful, but it's really the last thing to use for consumer cleanup after malwarebytes and a good AV scan.

Security researchers have developed a new type of malicious rootkit software that hides itself in an obscure part of a computer’s microprocessor, hidden from current antivirus products. Called a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sophos 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 ...