If you are infected with the tprdpw32.exe or SmartService rootkit, you will not be able to launch many security and anti-virus programs. The Tprdpw32 rootkit will be installed along with a Windows ...

Rootkits are becoming more prevalent and difficult to detect, and security vendor McAfee claims the blame falls squarely on the open-source community. In its “Rootkits” report being published Monday , ...

Rootkits are scary and becoming a larger and larger menace to our computers every day. In the past if our computers were infected with a piece of malware, we simply removed it and we were clean of the ...

Most malware are like leeches on your computer’s software. But, a rootkit can turn your computer’s very operating system against you. If you’re a smart Windows user, you probably already know about ...

Trend Micro has quietly released a rootkit scanning/cleaning utility, belatedly joining the list of anti-vendors pushing out free standalone tools to nab the stealthy computer threats. Trend Micro's ...

A pair of security researchers has developed a new kind of rootkit, called an SSM, that hides in an obscure part of the processor that is invisible to antivirus apps Security researchers have ...

Rootkits hide processes, files, and network connections and can be written to perform like a device driver on any operating system. Most people associate rootkits with the questionable practices of ...

Rootkits are powerful malware, actually a bunch of them together, that even your antivirus may find it hard to detect and remove from your system. Rootkits can be manually put inside the system with ...

Malware exists in different flavors. Most of the time, malware consists of malicious files stored in computers operating systems, just like any other file, and running as software with or without high ...

If anything good has come from the Sony DRM rootkit debacle, it's an increased awareness of the peril of rootkits. How many people knew what a rootkit was? Or heard of a rootkit? Outside of security ...