Microsoft Rootkit Revealer – The Best Rootkit Remover

October 10, 2009 · Filed Under AntiVirus & Security · Comment
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Microsoft Rootkit Revealer is an advanced and powerful rootkit virus remover for experts. It runs on Windows NT 4 and higher and its output lists Registry and file system API discrepancies that may indicate the presence of a user-mode or kernel-mode rootkit.

RootkitRevealer successfully detects many persistent rootkits including AFX, Vanquish and HackerDefender (note: RootkitRevealer is not intended to detect rootkits like Fu that don’t attempt to hide their files or registry keys).

Microsoft Rootkit Revealer - The Best Rootkit Remover

Small in size, it does the job pretty well. In order to minimize false positives run RootkitRevealer on an idle system. For best results exit all applications and keep the system otherwise idle during the RootkitRevealer scanning process.

McAfee Rootkit Detective – Detect And Remove Rootkit Virus

October 8, 2009 · Filed Under AntiVirus & Security · Comment
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McAfee Rootkit Detective Beta is a program designed and developed by McAfee Avert Labs to proactively detect and clean rootkits that are running on the system. Rootkit virus and trojans are hard to remove, this is because they bound themselves to Windows Rootkit, making removing them a threat to Windows itself.

McAfee Rootkit Detective - Detect And Remove Rootkit Virus

Designed to proactively detect the system objects like processes, files and registry that are hidden to the user.
Provides information about various system hooks like SSDT(System Service Descriptor Table) hooks, user/kernel IAT/EAT(Import/Export Address Table) hooks.
Allows the user to clean/remove the malicious objects from the system by renaming/deleting the hidden files/registry.
Users can also collect the samples manually after renaming them and submit to stinger@avertlabs.com for further analysis.

McAfee Rootkit Detective should only be used by knowledgeable individuals, having said that, it is always good to have a backup copy of your data. There could be a possibility where the rootkit remover might cause Windows to malfunction.

McAfee Rootkit Detective is not dependent on any signatures and can proactively detect most of the existing and upcoming rootkits and allow the user to clean them.