Virtualisation-based Windows rootkit detector available
Windows security software vendor North Security Labs is offering free downloads of its Hypersight Rootkit Detector while it's still in final testing.
The company claims that its hardware virtualisation-based hypervisor is the first fourth-generation rootkit detector.
It supports Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, but support for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 should be forthcoming eventually. It's also constrained to running on Intel Core 2 processors at present, but the company promises that a version designed to run on AMD processors will also be developed as the product matures.