How to check for rootkits in your PC?
Rootkit is nothing but set of dangerous backdoor programs that are available in the Internet which can put you in trouble by giving unauthorized administrator/root access to the hacker without your knowledge. Read more about Rootkit here at wiki. Rootkits can be technically classified into persistent, kernel mode, memory based and user mode having its own characteristics to function. Often finding rootkits has become a tough job and lot of people even don’t known that their computers are already infected through them. Today I am gonna show you a utility called RootkitRevealer which helps you to find all the different types of available rootkits as mentioned above.
Running scripts to automate some simple tasks or some repetitive tasks are very common nowadays. Every operating system has got its own way of writing scripts to automate tasks and it sometimes varies from one flavor of operating system to another flavor.
Microsoft, the leader in software solutions and services adds one more acquisition to their database. This time it is Komoku, the anit-rootkit specialist. Komoku founded in 2004 was mainly involved in security with financial and government institutes. Komoku was started as Maryland university’s research project. Komoku means “taking defensive position” in chinese board games and “find and kill evil” by japanese myths. This time Komoku is on the defensive positon, getting acquired by the Software Giant.
