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?"

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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.