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Source: InfoWorld - Posted by Bill Keys
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On July 26, McAfee will begin offering a new application called Rootkit Detective, designed to detect and remove dangerous rootkit attacks. The software will also help end-users ward off the threats, as well as funnel new intelligence into the company's ongoing research operations. Have you test drove McAfee's Rootkit Detective software? The feature that made me think about trying it out is McAfree says that it has the ability to detect self-cloaking malware attacks that install themselves as kernel modules or drivers. Since any attack that installs them self's in the kernel are very hard for software to detect, I am in interested in how effective they are in finding them. Also, how does this software rank up against other rootkit finders for example, chkrootkit?
Following in the footsteps of SiteAdvisor -- the free Web site security program acquired by McAfee in April 2006 that warns users about potentially dangerous sites and search results -- company officials said that the new tool will be offered at no charge from its Web site via download, with benefits for both end-users and its researchers.
The freeware program promises the ability to find and remove so-called rootkits -- self-cloaking malware attacks that install themselves as kernel modules or drivers and are most often used to hide other types of threats such as keyword-logging programs -- and send data about the attacks that are discovered back to McAfee.
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