Security vendor McAfee has released a free anti-rootkit tool. Rootkit Detective, which has been in beta since January, will "help computer users clean their machines of increasingly prevalent hidden ...

Dubai, U.A.E 29 th July, 2007 - McAfee, Inc. today released 'Rootkit Detective,' a new, free tool to help computer users clean their machines of increasingly prevalent hidden malicious code known as ...

Rootkits, used by hackers to hide malicious software, are on the rise and becoming more complex, according to security company McAfee. In the first quarter, the number of rootkits seen by McAfee's ...

On July 26, McAfee will begin offering a new application called Rootkit Detective, designed to detect and remove dangerous rootkit attacks. The software will also help end-users ward off the threats, ...

Rootkits are becoming more prevalent and difficult to detect, and security vendor McAfee claims the blame falls squarely on the open-source community. In its “Rootkits” report being published Monday , ...

The number of malicious programs is on the rise, according to McAfee’s Avert Labs, with exponential increases in rootkits and Windows-based stealth components. In the first quarter of 2006, the number ...

Intel Security, soon to be rebranded as McAfee again, released on Wednesday a scanner that can identify hidden EFI firmware rootkits. Intel said it decided to release the scanner after the recent ...

After reaching a record high in early 2011, rootkit malware has consistently dropped, with last quarter’s figure the lowest McAfee has tallied since 2008. “We attribute the decline to the adoption of ...

Darkmegi was discovered a few months ago when it exploited a MIDI (musical instrument digital interface) remote code executive vulnerability in Windows Media Player. The new drive-by attacks ...

Following a downward trend during the past two years, the number of new rootkit samples rose in the first quarter of this year to a level not seen since 2011, according to statistics from security ...

Anti-virus software writers are finding it harder and harder to keep up with the influx of rootkits in the wild, and according to McAfee, the amount of rootkits in the wild has grown by over 700 ...