New Antivirus Tests Show Rootkits Hard to Kill

ancientribe writes "Security suites and online Web scanners detect only a little more than half of all rootkits, according to new tests conducted by independent test organization AV-Test.org. Many of today's products struggle to clean up the ones they find. AV-Test.org also found that a few big name AV scanners had serious problems finding and removing active rootkits, such as Microsoft Windows Live OneCare 1.6.2111.32 and McAfee VirusScan 2008 11.2.121."

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[dotancohen]

Rootkits are not viruses. So what does antivirus have to do with defending against rootkits? Or is all malware today called 'virus' no matter what it does? I've been on a malware-free OS for so long that I don't even know the terminology anymore.