Rootkit Infections

[Ototero]

This makes interesting reading.

http://www.sysinternals.com/utilitie...trevealer.html

I've downloaded it and thankfully my machine is clean.

[Nflight]

I have not usually had any problems with these types of problems in any system that I work on. I believe a good Spyware product like Giant Software can irradicate such rootkit lingering on your sustem. I may be wrong but I can always hear your side of thoughts too, thats why we have this avenue for learning!

[NeoGen]

I didn't know what a rootkit thing could do until I read that article. I thought it was just another kind of virus, but they say that rootkits alter Windows API functions to hide themselves among other things. I guess that if they do that, then any windows program that relies on the windows API's to do its work can fail/not detect the rootkit.
So... now comes the $100 question... :P how do we know which programs rely on the windows API's and which don't?

[Ototero]

Sony installed rootkits when you play some of there music CDs on your computer. They are being sued for millions now.