Spyware



January 24, 2008

Please dont say, Whats a Rootkit?

Filed under: Spyware News — Doug Woodall @ 6:41 pm
These are interesting results. Cant wait to see if these companies start working on better Rootkit scans.
clipped from www.darkreading.com

Bake-off: Many AV Products Can’t Detect Rootkits


Only four of 28 antivirus products caught all rootkits in latest AV test by independent researchers


F-Secure, Panda, Symantec, and Trend Micro were the only AV packages that detected all 12 active rootkits in the test, and AntiVir, Avast, AVG, BitDefender, Dr Web, eTrust-VET, Kaspersky, McAfee, Nod32, and Sophos caught all but one rootkit. Microsoft missed two rootkits.

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