Submission + - McAfee launches free anti-rootkit tool
Jerry Macorny writes: McAfee has released a free anti-rootkit tool called 'Rootkit Detective', which has been in beta since January, will "help computer users clean their machines of increasingly prevalent hidden malicious code known as rootkits", McAfee said in a statement. Rootkit Detective lets administrators examine operating systems, uncovering hidden processes, registry entries and files, and lets users remove or disable these files upon system reboot and should only be used by "knowledgeable individuals" to prevent deletion of vital files.