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Six Rootkit Detectors To Protect Your PC

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 17, 2007 @03:05PM from the rate-them dept.

An anonymous reader writes "InformationWeek has a review of 6 rootkit detectors.This issue became big last year when Sony released some music CDs which came with a rootkit that silently burrowed into PCs. This review looks at how you can block rootkits and protect your machine using F-Secure Backlight, IceSword, RKDetector, RootkitBuster, RootkitRevealer, and Rookit Unhooker."

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Nervous about these... by ubuwalker31 · 2007-01-17 15:56 · Score: 5, Insightful

Is it just me, or am I being overly cautious not wanting to download a rootkit detector from Chinese and Russian software developers? Are these programs opensource? Are they safe? Anyone?