{"id":641720,"date":"2013-02-07T19:46:33","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T00:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=129033"},"modified":"2013-02-07T19:46:33","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T00:46:33","slug":"dont-expect-too-much-from-rootkit-remover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/641720","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t expect too much from Rootkit Remover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/hacked-virus-malware-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"hacked virus malware\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-67450\" \/>Bitdefender Labs has released\u00a0<a title=\"Bitdefender Rootkit Remover\" href=\"http:\/\/www.downloadcrew.com\/article\/29599-bitdefender_rootkit_remover\" >Bitdefender Rootkit Remover<\/a>, a free stand-alone tool for dealing with known rootkits.<\/p>\n<p>The company report that Rootkit Remover can remove infections from a wide range of threats, including Mebroot, all TDL families (TDL\/SST\/Pihar), Mayachok, Mybios, Plite, XPaj, Whistler, Alipop, Cpd, Fengd, Fips, Guntior, MBR Locker, Mebratix, Niwa, Ponreb, Ramnit, Stoned, Yoddos, Yurn, Zegost and Necurs, amongst others.<\/p>\n<p>The program\u2019s emphasis is very much on simplicity. There\u2019s no installation required, no need to worry about compatibility with other security products, and no lengthy running times, either. Just click \u201cStart Scan\u201d and Rootkit Remover checks for specific signs of infection by known rootkits. If anything is found, it\u2019ll be removed; and if your system is clean, the scan could be over in less than a second.<\/p>\n<p>You shouldn\u2019t expect too much from Rootkit Remover, then. It doesn\u2019t perform any kind of general analysis to help you detect and remove brand new threats, and of course it can\u2019t stop you from being infected in the first place (so is no substitute for a regular antivirus engine). This is really just about providing a single dedicated tool to quickly remove malware which Bitdefender knows about already.<\/p>\n<p>Still, this isn\u2019t in itself a bad thing. If you think you might be infected by a rootkit and your current antivirus engine hasn\u2019t raised an alert, then there\u2019s no doubt that this new tool provides a very quick and easy way to get a second opinion, and perhaps solve the problem entirely. Especially as the official Bitdefender Labs\u00a0<a title=\"Bitdefender Labs\" href=\"http:\/\/labs.bitdefender.com\/projects\/rootkit-remover\/rootkit-remover\/\" >blog post<\/a>\u00a0on the release suggests it\u2019s going to be regularly updated, with support for tackling \u201cnew rootkit families\u2026 added as they become known\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But if you\u2019d like to try it yourself, there are now two downloads available:\u00a0<a title=\"Bitdefender Rootkit Remover (32-bit)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.downloadcrew.com\/article\/29599-bitdefender_rootkit_remover\" >Bitdefender Rootkit Remover x86<\/a>, and\u00a0<a title=\"Bitdefender Rootkit Remover (64-bit)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.downloadcrew.com\/article\/29600-bitdefender_rootkit_remover\" >Bitdefender Rootkit Remover x64<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo Credits:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/gallery-111187p1.html\" >maraga<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/\" >Shutterstock<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=OJMw58AKBZY:plRUTFJeAB8:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=OJMw58AKBZY:plRUTFJeAB8:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/bn\/~4\/OJMw58AKBZY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitdefender Labs has released\u00a0Bitdefender Rootkit Remover, a free stand-alone tool for dealing with known rootkits. The company report that Rootkit Remover can remove infections from a wide range of threats, including Mebroot, all TDL families (TDL\/SST\/Pihar), Mayachok, Mybios, Plite, XPaj, Whistler, Alipop, Cpd, Fengd, Fips, Guntior, MBR Locker, Mebratix, Niwa, Ponreb, Ramnit, Stoned, Yoddos, Yurn, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}