Hi folks, It looks like stealth rootkits are starting to become mainstream, by becoming standard parts of worms, viruses, and spyware/adware (such as the ever-popular CoolWebSearch; see the interesting article at http://www.thetechguide.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=10984). I suspect that we may soon be seeing infected computers which MUST be scanned by slaving the hard drive to another computer. Stealth rootkit detectors: http://www.f-secure.com/blacklight (Free beta until July 1) http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/rootkitreveal.shtml http://research.microsoft.com/rootkit About rootkits: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootkit -- Scott. -- -------list-services-below----------- Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at http://www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at http://www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Latest news live feeds at http://modecideas.com/indexhomenews.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.