McAfee Rootkit Detective 1.0

Publisher's description of McAfee Rootkit Detective

McAfee Rootkit Detective 1.0 is a program designed and developed by McAfee Avert Labs to proactively detect and clean rootkits that are running on the system.

McAfee Rootkit Detective should only be used by knowledgeable individuals at the direction of, and with the support of, a representative from McAfee Avert Labs or McAfee Technical Support. Improper usage of this tool could result in damage to your applications or operating system.

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  McAfee Rootkit Detective

  5 Stars my rating

  by: dpraisharma on 18-May-2008 10:35:40 AM

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  McAfee Rootkit Detective

  McAfee goes free ? . . . Just try it . . . .

  by: avierre on 02-Aug-2007 11:47:45 PM

  Pros: I heard this from my friend. I've tried and compared it with PC Media AV (Indonesia). Almost the same, freeware, average resource (13kb in memory of WinXP SP2), average deep scan. I think Trend Micro HijackThis may have similar fuctions with this one, to monitor unsafe setting running on system.

  Cons: McAfee Rootkit Detective still have to improved. Sadly, admin privileges is required to make this tool working properly. You'll sometime experience crash on your system if you terminate it through Task Manager. On certain setting, it becomes slow and doesn't work properly. You may experience more than I've. Flexibility to any computer settings and condotions are main concern for further developments

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  McAfee Rootkit Detective

  It works

  by: Jessethebest on 01-Apr-2008 06:16:33 PM

  Pros: Found a malicious program that was not detected by my A-Squared, AVG Anti-Spyware, Norton Security Scan, and AVG antivirus. I ran all of these one after the other because my computer was acting funny and I was convinced something was on it. Well, McAfee rootkit detective found it.

  Also, this HAS NOT crashed my computer. It is extremely basic and runs very smooth.

  Cons: None. It's free!

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  McAfee Rootkit Detective

  It's free,it runs well on the 3 PC's I tried it on.

  by: jmillerjm on 17-Jun-2008 11:30:46 PM

  Pros: It's not slow as some. I've never had a problem getting it to run. And, again, it's free.

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