McAfee heeft vandaag Rootkit Detective gelanceerd, gratis software die computergebruikers helpt om hun computers schoon te maken en houden van kwaadaardige software, ook bekend als rootkits.
Rootkit Detective spoort onder andere verborgen processen op stelt de gebruiker in staat om gevaarlijke software op een veilige manier te verwijderen of uit te schakelen. De software is beschikbaar via:
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McAfee rootkit detective nabs hidden malware
New, free tool helps protect consumers and businesses
SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 26-McAfee, Inc. today released Rootkit Detective, a new, free tool to help computer users clean their machines of increasingly prevalent hidden malicious code known as rootkits.
Cybercrooks use rootkits to hide other nefarious programs on compromised PCs. The number of rootkits hit 3,284 last year and has already more doubled in the first half this year to 7,325. Since the initial trial release of Rootkit Detective in January the application has been downloaded over 110,000 times.
“Rootkit Detective offers the most comprehensive rootkit detection capabilities available today,” said Ahmed Sallam, Lead Research Architect at McAfee®. “We have achieved extremely high levels of accuracy, using various techniques to find anything that hides itself on a computer.”
Malicious rootkits are sold on underground online markets. Some hackers even create custom rootkits for payment. Often the software is used to hide a backdoor on a computer that lets miscreants enter surreptitiously. Typically a rootkit arrives in a Trojan horse or via malicious download. Some adware makers use rootkits to cover up their software.
Rootkit Detective was developed by Avert® Labs, McAfee’s top-ranked global security threat and research organization. It is a powerful tool that lets computer users look under the hood of their PC operating system and could be used, for example, when there are signs of a compromise, such as a sudden slowdown or suspicious network activity.
Rootkit Detective uncovers hidden processes, registry entries and files and lets users safely remove or disable them upon system reboot. In addition, Rootkit Detective can scan the integrity of a PC’s kernel memory and display any modification, which may also point to a system compromise.
Using Rootkit Detective, consumers and businesses can submit samples to Avert Labs. After analyses, a signature for the rootkit is created and added to McAfee’s client security products for enhanced rootkits detection and protection capabilities.
McAfee experts will be discussing Rootkit Detective next week at the annual DefCon security conference in Las Vegas.
Rootkit Detective is available at:
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