Publisher's Description
From McAfee:
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.
What's new in this version: New product.
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All versions:
3.6 starsout of 7 votes
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Current version:
3.6 starsout of 7 votes
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"Very good program to use."
Version: McAfee Rootkit Detective 1.0
Pros
Easy and fast,
Cons
No problems with it
Summary
Very good program to use, it did not find anything with makes me happy.
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"Not sure if product is effective."
Version: McAfee Rootkit Detective 1.0
Pros
Free and respected company brand
Cons
I am tired of all the different software requre to clan my system. Chrome os might just be the answer..?
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"False positives."
Version: McAfee Rootkit Detective 1.0
Pros
+ It's free.
+ Works ok.
Cons
- Gives false positives (Daemon Tools in 'hidden registry keys/values') & (spwn.sys & ftdisk in 'hooked services').
- Didn't detect C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\a8y3u7fp.sys (but AVG Anti-Rootkit Free did).
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"It's free,it runs well on the 3 PC's I tried it on."
Version: McAfee Rootkit Detective 1.0
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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"5 Stars my rating"
Version: McAfee Rootkit Detective 1.0
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"It works"
Version: McAfee Rootkit Detective 1.0
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 goes free ? . . . Just try it . . . ."
Version: McAfee Rootkit Detective 1.0
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
