This free app makes a useful distinction between known and unknown rootkits, though it recommends removing only known ones. But it couldn't remove every rootkit it detected. Worse, it reported success ...

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Security researchers have developed a new type of malicious rootkit software that hides itself in an obscure part of a computer’s microprocessor, hidden from current antivirus products. Called a ...

What commercial software uses rootkits or rootkit-like technology? I guess it depends on how you define rootkits. Mark Russinovich of Sysinternals (he's the programmer who brought the Sony DRM rootkit ...

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 ...

Remember the Sony BMG rootkit scandal of 2005? Well apparently Sony is at it again. And this time the Japanese company is not propagating rootkits via music CDs, it's doing it with biometric USB ...

Cybersecurity researchers at Bitdefender have detailed how cyber criminals have been using FiveSys, a rootkit that somehow made its way through the driver-certification process to be digitally signed ...

The fracas stems from a long-standing practice in Symantec's Norton SystemWorks suite to cloak a special directory. The SystemWorks feature -- which harks back to SystemWorks' predecessor, Norton ...

Must pay $150 (£77) for each infected PC When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Sony BMG Music Entertainment has agreed to cough up $150 ...

Once installed, the rootkit would be able to silently monitor and control the device -- a troubling notion given Cisco's dominance in the router market A security researcher has developed malicious ...

Modern computers utilize what is known as a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) to get up and running. When you press the power button on your Mac or PC, the UEFI begins communicating with ...