The fracas stems from a long-standing practice in Symantec's Norton SystemWorks suite to cloak a special directory. The SystemWorks feature -- which harks back to SystemWorks' predecessor, Norton ...

Microsoft security researchers are warning about a new generation of powerful system monitoring programs, or “rootkits,” that are almost impossible to detect using current security products and that ...

Antivirus firms Trend Micro and Sophos have developed new tools to discover rootkit infections but both are attacking the problem from a slightly different angle. Rootkits are powerful programs that ...

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 ...

Security researchers have developed a new type of malicious rootkit software that hides itself in an obscure part of a computer’s microprocessor, hidden from current antivirus products. Called a ...

Listen to the Computerworld TechCast: Rootkits. If an illegal hacker wants to do something to your system, such as plant a virus, a Trojan horse program or spyware, he has to gain access to the system ...

Late at night, a system administrator performed a routine check of a crashed server, one of 48 systems comprising a major online infrastructure that generated about US$4 million per month in revenue.

A security researcher has developed malicious rootkit software for Cisco Systems' routers, a development that has placed increasing scrutiny on the routers that carry the majority of the Internet's ...

The Sophos rootkit tool is actually fairly useful, but it's really the last thing to use for consumer cleanup after malwarebytes and a good AV scan.