Anti Rootkit Blog

ContextPlus, which is a “Marketing Company” has stopped distribution of its malicious software which included spyware and also rootkits to hide the spyware. It cited operating concerns as the reason for stopping. ContextPlus probably knew they would have long legal battles ahead because of their behaviour. This brings to an end the company who brought us rootkits into the mainstream PC world via its Apropos rootkit.

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Steo
www.antirootkit.com

Anti-spyware software company Aluria are leading the way ahead in Anti-Spyware prevention by adding a technology that will operate at the Windows “kernel,” or core processing center. The new kernel-mode features are a response to new, sophisticated spyware.Aluria have developed a news system called ADS ( Active Defence Shield ) which by using kernel mode techniques stop spyware from getting into parts of the computer that are now becoming a serious problem.
“ADS installs a kernel driver that hooks into a computer’s system driver, which controls the processes executing on that machine. Since any computer action ultimately involves a response by the system driver, the Aluria software can detect any suspicious activity and can stop spyware before it is written to the computer’s file system.” …..source

The one problem with using technology like this is that other scanning software like Anti-Virus or Anti-Spyware software may flag it as suspicious behaviour and cause serious problems to users in the future.

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Steo
www.antirootkit.com