McAfee Rootkit Detective – Free McAfee Anti RootKit Remover

McAfee Rootkit Detective, a free anti rootkit program designed and developed by McAfee Avert Labs to proactively detect and clean rootkits that are running on the system.

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This anti rootkit application able to detect the system objects like processes, files and registry that are hidden to the user. Besides that, it also allows the user to clean/remove the malicious objects from the system by renaming/deleting the hidden files/registry or terminates the malicious processes. Plus more, This McAfee is not dependent on any signatures and can proactively detect most of the existing and upcoming rootkit.

Meanwhile, it can provides various information like all running processes in the system and various system hooks like SSDT (System Service Descriptor Table) hooks, user/kernel IAT/EAT(Import/Export Address Table) hooks.

Alll Rootkit Detective log file contains details of the hidden files. The files once renamed after reboot will have a .REN extension. User can search for the same on the system and can submit these files for further analysis with your comments to stinger@avertlabs.com. Zip the files and password protect with “infected” and mention “Rootkit Detective” in the subject line when you send the mail.

Supported Operating Systems on McAfee RootKit Detective

• Windows XP Home Edition with SP2
• Windows XP Professional Edition with SP2
• Windows 2000 with SP4
• Windows 2000 Server
• Windows 2003 Server SP1

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