After 2 years Avira offers the next generation of it's excellent antivirus product line: AntiVir 8 The product now contains all features which are already finished. It's fully update capable - we'll supply all new engine and virus pattern files through normal updates. The betatest will last until April 4, 2008.

Future Threats Are Coming Closer Did you know that it is possible to hide spyware or a virus in a way that will fool even the traditional antivirus products? Some spyware programs are already using so-called rootkits to hide deep in the system. And, virus authors are joining in. Learn more about the threat called rootkit. The Cure - Innovative New Technology Now, there is a cure, F-Secure BlackLight Rootkit Elimination Technology. And, it's time to find out, whether your computer is infected by invisible rootkits. Read more about this innovative counter-measure F-Secure BlackLightTM. Download Trial Note: An integrated BlackLight engine is included in F-Secure Internet Security 2008 as well as Client Security 7. F-Secure Online Scanner also includes BlackLight technology. A standalone BlackLight Utility can be downloaded from our Security Center.

Makers of rootkits--malware that can be particularly well hidden--consider IceSword the toughest rootkit scanner.

McAfee Rootkit Detective Beta is a program designed and developed by McAfee Avert Labs to proactively detect and clean rootkits that are running on the system.

We're experiencing a lot of downloads of Panda AntiRootkit. Many thanks to all the people that are helping us improve this free utility by sending suggestions, comments, feedback and submitting new rootkits that are being found in the wild.

RootkitRevealer is an advanced rootkit detection utility. It runs on Windows NT 4 and higher and its output lists Registry and file system API discrepancies that may indicate the presence of a user-mode or kernel-mode rootkit. RootkitRevealer successfully detects all persistent rootkits published at http://www.rootkit.com/, including AFX, Vanquish and HackerDefender (note: RootkitRevealer is not intended to detect rootkits like Fu that don't attempt to hide their files or registry keys). If you use it to identify the presence of a rootkit please let us know! The reason that there is no longer a command-line version is that malware authors have started targetting RootkitRevealer's scan by using its executable name. We've therefore updated RootkitRevealer to execute its scan from a randomly named copy of itself that runs as a Windows service. This type of execution is not conducive to a command-line interface. Note that you can use command-line options to execute an automatic scan with results logged to a file, which is the equivalent of the command-line version's behavior.

Our free software, Sophos Anti-Rootkit, finds and removes any rootkit that is hidden on your computer using advanced rootkit detection technology. Rootkits can lie hidden on computers and remain undetected by anti-virus software. Although new rootkits can be prevented from infecting the system, if you had any rootkits before you installed your anti-virus, they may never be revealed. Removing rootkits without compromising system integrity is particularly challenging and needs to be done with care.