McAfee Rootkit Detective: New, free tool helps protect consumers and businesses

McAfee, Inc. 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 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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