Plans for a standalone antirootkit

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Any?
Was the engine of the 0.9.6 version updated inside avast?
Why wouldn’t it get an upgrade?

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There is an MBR rootkit scanner under development right now :

http://public.avast.com/~gmerek/aswMBR.htm

Greetz, Red.

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Hmmm… Is it scanning anything else than the MBR itself?