No Defense Against Windows Rootkits?

An anonymous reader writes "Spyware bad guys (and also phishing people) started using rootkits technology to stay hidden in a system. The problem is that at the moment the technology to defend a Windows system from these things is very poor. In fact antivirus companies have just started adding basic anti-rootkits technology. So the problem is serious, and well outlined by this question: Is the closed source code of Windows preventing us from actively defending our systems?"

Comments

Re:It works both ways, but it's worse for MS

[amightywind]

What a load of BS - after all these years I'm beginning to think about dumping this forum as it's getting more and more crappy.

Look at my .sig. Some cockroach, who fancies himself a site 'moderator', climbed out of his hole and shut me down for 4 weeks because he thought I got downmodded too often. My karma value, whatever the hell that is, would have you think I was in good standing. I will never metamoderate again.

Re:It works both ways, but it's worse for MS

[Tibor the Hun]

Shit, can I join the club?

uh-oh, here come the troll mods! prolly the same ones who modded me troll yesterday, as opposed to offtopic.

Re:It works both ways, but it's worse for MS

[amightywind]

Here my post that triggered the timeout event. Admittedly, due to the political nature of the posting you could expect have of people to support is strongly and half to oppose. I actually think that dueling moderation is good for the site. It shows a high level of interest in the posting. Isn't that the point?