rootkits

does avast detect them in a boot time scan?

Hey treker96mk2, check out this thread:

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=27879.0

okay i wasnt sure if the rootkits simply told windows to hide them. and that when windows was not fully active the files woud be visible.

AVG just came out with a free stand alone anti rootkit, but I haven’t tried it.

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/download-free-anti-rootkit/lng/us/tpl/v5

I just tried it. No conflicts with avast; works fine too. Thanks for the link marc57.

Also see, anti-rootkit, detection, removal & protection http://www.antirootkit.com/software/index.htm.

Just came out… well, it was on beta quite a long time…
It works ok. Simple and easy interface. Not that many info and ‘false positives’.
Panda antirootkit has a very good updater.