The Rootkit Revealer

Rootkits allow malware authors to hide or cloak their creations from the user. They do so by filtering data returned by the operating systems internal functions. Mark Rossinovich was chief software architect at Winternals, a company he co-founded which offered utilities to manage, monitor, and troubleshoot a Windows Microsoft environment. He developed Rootkit Revealer - a program designed to detect Rootkits. It queried the computer's contents twice, once using the OS's built-in functions, and once using its own custom ones. To his astonishment, the test came back positive. His system was infected by a Rootkit. Only after these warnings materialized a week later did