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No Defense Against Windows Rootkits?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the bend-over-and-take-it dept.

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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  1. 1000's Of Programmers by nurb432 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Microsoft has this too. While i agree with the argument that 'openness' is better for security patches, thats not a good argument..

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