Download McAfee Rootkit Detective 1.0 beta

The developers at McAfee behind the mini anti-virus solution Stinger have created a new product that detects and removes so-called rootkits and have just released a beta release of it. The program currently only works under Windows 2000, XP and 2003 Server and the Download just fits one floppy. McAfee Rootkit Detective scans the hard drive and registry for software that is hiding from the operating system. Afterwards, an overview is given of these programs and processes, after which the user must check whether there is actually malicious software among them. Since this is the first release, there is no changelog, but we have a summary of all options for you:

features

• Designed to proactively detect the system objects like processes, files and registry that are hidden to the user.
• Provides information about all running processes in the system.
• Provides information about various system hooks like SSDT(System Service Descriptor Table) hooks, user/kernel IAT/EAT(Import/Export Address Table) hooks.
• Allows the user to clean/remove the malicious objects from the system by renaming/deleting the hidden files/registry.
• Allows the user to terminate the malicious processes.
• Users can submit samples using the submission feature present in the tool.

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