Rootkit Detective Nabs Hidden Malware

McAfee has released Rootkit Detective, a new, free tool to help computer users clean their machines of increasingly prevalent hidden malicious codes known as rootkits.

“Rootkit Detective offers the most comprehensive rootkit detection capabilities available today,” said Ahmed Sallam, lead research architect at McAfee. “We have achieved extremely high levels of accuracy, using various techniques to find anything that hides itself on a computer.”

Rootkit Detective is developed by Avert Labs, McAfee’s global security threat and research organisation. It is a tool that lets computer users look under the hood of their PC operating system and could be used, for example, when there are signs of a compromise, such as a sudden slowdown or suspicious network activity.

Rootkit Detective uncovers hidden processes, registry entries and files and lets users safely remove or disable them upon system reboot. In addition, Rootkit Detective can scan the integrity of a PC’s kernel memory and display any modification, which may also point to a system compromise.

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Using Rootkit Detective, consumers and businesses can submit samples to Avert Labs. After analyses, a signature for the rootkit is created and added to McAfee’s client security products for enhanced rootkits detection and protection capabilities.