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 ...

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 ...

Trend Micro has quietly released a rootkit scanning/cleaning utility, belatedly joining the list of anti-vendors pushing out free standalone tools to nab the stealthy computer threats. Trend Micro's ...

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, ...

Most of the antispyware programs you can find also do some checking for rootkit-type infections so you may want to use multiple scanning programs to search for whatever is slowing your PCs down and ...

One of the newest threats in the wild—what security mavens mean by "loose on the net"—is called a "rootkit," or RK for short. While a rootkit by itself causes no damage, it attempts to ...

If a rootkit is hiding files, processes, log-ins, etc., how would you know? If you can't see it, how would you remove it? Last week’s posting was a reminder of how stealthy and dangerous rootkits can ...

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 ...

The detectors themselves typically work by comparing different views of the system and seeing where there's a mismatch. One of the original ways to perform this kind of detection was to dump a ...

Much like in the movie The Matrix, where the world presented to the computer user is not a true representation of what is really going on, a rootkit is a program that can be used to hide files, ...