In the past malware infections typically consisted of worms, trojans, backdoors, and viruses that were easily detected, and for the most part, removed. To make an anti-virus program's job more ...

Understanding Rootkits and its effect or rather the ill effects is very important for high end and normal PC users as well. A Rootkit is a curation of malicious software which when authorized for ...

Editor’s note: Microsoft clarified its MBR rootkit removal advice after this story was posted. Microsoft is telling Windows users that they’ll have to reinstall the operating system if they get ...