I just ran across the new McAfee Rootkit Detective 1.0. There are so many anti-rootkit tools available now, and it’s about time that McAfee comes out with its own free rootkit detection utility.

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More and more sys admins are realizing the danger of rootkits. However, I’ve known only a few, who spent enough time to estimate how big the threat really is. Since the main purpose of rootkits is to hide themselves from users and sysops, you usually don’t know of them. I guess there are not many Windows administrators out there, who never had problems with computer viruses. But how many ever realized that they have rootkits in their network?

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