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Free rootkit scanners

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The antivirus vendor Sophos released a free anti-rootkit tool for Windows.

It only permits scanning of system and removal of malware.
To have prevention you need to buy the Sophos Antivirus.

Sophos Anti-Rootik is not the only free scanning tool in its category. There are a couple of famous competitors:


Both only do detection of malware with similar techniques and could be both merged in future releases of Microsoft Windows Defender: Rootkit Revealer has been developed by Mark Russinovich, which just moved back in Microsoft as Technical Fellow.

Apart them a horde of similar tools is raising and most of them are free. Antirootkit.com has a very complete list.
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