RootkitRevealer

Now its time to look in to the software section. Let us see about a small software called RootkitReaveler. The software doesn't need to be installed, just double click on the icon and just agree the term and conditions, the software is ready to use. It is designed to run on Windows NT or higher editions of Windows. RootkitRevealer is an advanced rootkit detection utility and its output lists Registry and file system API discrepancies that may indicate the presence of a user-mode or kernel-mode rootkit.RootkitRevealer is capable of detecting many persistent rootkits including AFX, Vanquish and HackerDefender. RootkitRevealer is not intended to detect rootkits like Fu that don't attempt to hide their files or registry keys. Since persistent rootkits work by changing API results so that a system view using APIs differs from the actual view in storage, RootkitRevealer compares the results of a system scan at the highest level with that at the lowest level. The highest level is the Windows API and the lowest level is the raw contents of a file system volume or Registry hive. A hive file is the Registry's on-disk storage format. Thus, rootkits, whether user mode or kernel mode, that manipulate the Windows API or native API to remove their presence from a directory listing, for example, will be seen by RootkitRevealer as a discrepancy between the information returned by the Windows API and that seen in the raw scan of a FAT or NTFS volume's file system structures. You can download it from http://filehippo.com/download_rootkit_revealer/tech/