[pchelpers] Re: Rootkits, $1000 for reading EULA, self-learning language translation

Found this stuff:

www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0ECZ/is_2005_March_8/ai_n12449382
IT security company, F-Secure, has announced the launch of a new 
technology designed to deal with rootkits, an emerging security threat 
to PCs and servers.

The company said that its BlackLight Rootkit Elimination Technology, is 
the first solution available from an anti-virus company that will detect 
and eliminate files, directories and processes that are hidden by 
rootkits. Rootkits are stealth software which hide malicious programs 
including viruses, Trojans, spyware and keyloggers.


www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1774921,00.asp
Finnish anti-virus specialist F-Secure Corp. on Thursday announced plans 
to add rootkit-detection features to its product suite, joining a 
growing list of security vendors tackling the stealthy threat.

At the CeBIT show in Hannover, Germany, F-Secure lifted the wraps off 
the new BlackLight Rootkit Elimination Technology, offering the tool as 
a free beta through Apr. 30.

www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1777898,00.asp
www.techsupportforum.com/showthread.php?threadid=46958

http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?type=Technical%20Report&id=775


Ekhart GEORGI (last name last) wrote:
> thanks, Scott!
> just ran RootkitRevealer, and i don't really understand it yet, but i 
> feel a lot safer already :-) It's always good to be ahead of the bad guys.


> Scott McNay wrote:
> 
>>Hi folks,
>>
>>I should read SlashDot more often...
>>
>>
>>IT: SysInternals Releases RootkitRevealer
>>Security
>>Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 23, @09:58AM
>>from the have-you-been-pwn3d-lately dept.
>>
>>Brian writes "In the wake of news that Microsoft is developing
>>prototype software to detect rootkits, SysInternals has released a
>>free rootkit detection tool named RootkitRevealer for all Windows
>>systems NT4+. RootkitRevealer works by "comparing the results of a
>>system scan at the highest level with that at the lowest level," and
>>detects every known rootkit at rootkit.com. They also report that it
>>is impossible to know for sure that a given system is clean from
>>within it, but that defeating their tool would require a level of
>>sophistication not yet seen. You can download RootkitRevealer."
>>
>>http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/02/18/1920244.shtml?tid=201
>>http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/rootkitreveal.shtml


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