Rootkits spy in through Windows to see what you are buying; then steal what they can, cloak their existence and leave the door open behind them so more intruders can follow.Not a friendly neighbor. A ...

Antivirus firms are considering protecting their customers from the digital rights management software used by Sony on some CDs. Kaspersky Labs has classed Sony's DRM software as spyware because, ...

Q: I currently use BitDefender 2016 on my Windows 10 network and mobile devices. I trust that security software to guard against the normal hazards of modern computer/internet usage (drive-by-attacks, ...

A modern antispyware utility is a ruthless killer. The moment it sees a malicious program that matches one of its virus or spyware signatures, it terminates the process and deletes all file and ...

In recent versions of Windows, specifically Vista and Windows 7, Microsoft has introduced a number of new security features designed to prevent malicious code from running. But attackers are ...

Security experts now believe that trojan, spam and malware protection software cannot adequately prevent system compromise by increasingly sophisticated rootkits. Rootkits are used to conceal the ...

Nowadays, even the technophobic PC users have a reasonable understanding of the common varieties of malware. Its a virus if it tries to infect other PCs. Its a worm if it tries to propagate itself ...

The Sony BMG copy protection debacle has pulled "rootkit" out of the hacker underground and into the wider world of regular computer users. But while those PC owners may now recognize the term, that ...

Mustang Panda deployed TONESHELL via a signed kernel-mode rootkit, targeting Asian government networks and evading security ...

Joanna Rutkowska, a rootkit specialist, announced at the Blackhat DC conference this year, that hardware protection is ineffective against more advanced forms of rootkits. The report from The Inquirer ...