The detection and eradication of rootkits — the software code increasingly used to hide malware or adware — is either fairly simple or nearly impossible, depending on which security expert is bringing ...

Wajam is an adware program that displays advertisements in search engine result pages and possibly other social sites that you visit. In order to inject these ads, Wajam will install browser ...

If you are infected with the tprdpw32.exe or SmartService rootkit, you will not be able to launch many security and anti-virus programs. The Tprdpw32 rootkit will be installed along with a Windows ...

Enterprise anti-virus vendor Sophos on Aug. 23 released a free rootkit detection and removal tool alongside a warning that the stealthy malware threat is a legitimate security concern for businesses.

Editor’s note: Microsoft clarified its MBR rootkit removal advice after this story was posted. Microsoft is telling Windows users that they’ll have to reinstall the operating system if they get ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. Grisoft's AVG Anti-Rootkit detects and disables rootkits.

The latest company to do so is BitDefender which has released its own TDL4 removal tool. As both Kaspersky noted (using different words) in its analysis, and as BitDefender has stated, TDL4 is a ...

Microsoft yesterday clarified the advice it gave users whose Windows PCs are infected with a new, sophisticated rootkit that buries itself on the hard drive’s boot sector. Several security researchers ...

Admins should be aware of the implications of rootkit removal before lunging headlong into the endeavor, says Ron O’Brien, senior security analyst at Sophos, one of the first security vendors to offer ...

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.

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.