So McAfee has released a rootkit detective today. version 1 Beta, root kits have become a big issue over the last few years, as people have become more aware of Trojans and Worm virus. Rootkit's hook themselves' into Kernel and into the registry undermining the anti-virus software and the spyware detectors but rootkit detective is not for the amateur its a tool for pro's as you need a good understand of how the operating system works and what processes and hooks there should be. go here to read more
Now some news for the home users, Secunia has released a Utility that checks for updates. Again this is a beta version and is free for home users and private uses, installation is easy enough and it auto start itself after the first install. To be honest I was impressed on how much software it detected and how quickly I could update software even software like Filezilla. It also told me all the software I had that had become end of life and gave me a percentage score for how up to date my machine was. Of course I have only had a small play but I will let you know if there is any major problems with it after I test it some more. if you want to download a copy for you self then go to the Secunia PSI site
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