Rootkit might be everyone’s nightmare as it easily hides its presence from most of the anti-virus softwares that do not have rootkit protection. Many years back, it was Sony’s embedded rootkit that made the first highlight. You might have one installed right now. But what are the available softwares to detect rootkits?
Most popular rootkit removal tool
More anti-rootkit tools are available at Antirootkit.com
What better way to secure your internet connection than installing a free firewall from Comodo. Tested to be amongst the best firewall in leak test. A firewall is said to provide the extra protection layer needed to monitor programs that want access to the internet. In this case, you are the only key that the certain program can access the net.
We found out that Kaspersky is currently offering a “Buy 1 free 1″ promotion for this 2008 new year season. Products on offer are Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0 and Kaspersky Anti-virus Mobile 6.0. However you can’t browse to this promotion page through its main site. Here’s the special link Kaspersky ‘08 Special Promotion.
The guys at MRSC just announced what may appear to be a vulnerability in some of the Microsoft Office Excel versions. The Microsoft Security team are still investigating the matter as the attacks are still targeted and not widespread as of now. They will release an update soon if the matter is found to be genuine. Case at Microsoft Security Advisor(947563).
Be on high alert if you have receive a Valentine e-mail or card this coming February as the Storm worm might hit soon.
Latest update: Storm worm are already on the released according to Sophos on its blog. Take note of infected file name withlove.exe or e-mail title ‘Falling In Love with You’ and ‘You’re the One’.
