Microsoft has acquired Komoku, maker of rootkit detection products. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Komoku creates both hardware and software approaches to rootkit detection.

Execs say that the newly acquired technology provided by the Komoku purchase allows businesses to better respond to the increased use of rootkits as an attack tool to their networks and systems. The ...

In order to protect your PC it is important to download the latest signatures from your Internet security software vendor daily and regularly scan your system to detect and eliminate stealthy viruses, ...

A newly discovered rootkit may not be particularly threatening in itself, but its unique method of concealment could pave the way for more malicious exploits, researchers say. Symantec and F-Secure ...

Rootkits hide processes, files, and network connections and can be written to perform like a device driver on any operating system. Most people associate rootkits with the questionable practices of ...

The problem with rootkits is that they tend to hook into system calls to improve the stealthy qualities. Unlike most bots and viruses that run as executable code and are fairly easy to check/destroy ...