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Upon testing, Kaspersky TDSSKiller missed all 3 rootkit keyloggers and even wrongly detected 3 legitimate system (.SYS) files belonging to COMODO Time Machine as suspicious objects with medium risk. Kaspersky TDSSKiller started off as a removal tool to detect and clean up the Alureon/TDSS/TDL rootkit and has grown to recognize a few other rootkits including bootkits. Invisible KeyLogger Stealth wasn’t detected at all. HitmanPro found Elite Keylogger files to be suspicious but wasn’t flagged as a threat because none of the antiviruses detected it as malicious after the cloud scan. All In One Keylogger was detected because Ikarus and G Data indicated that the file is malicious.

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Although HitmanPro is shareware, you can use it to scan your computer for free while removal is only available during the 30-days trial. HitmanPro is a popular second opinion malware scanner that first uses behavioral analysis to determine if a file is a possible threat and then automatically uploads the file to have it scanned in the cloud with 5 different antiviruses for confirmation. Bitdefender Rootkit Remover fail to detect all 3 rootkit keyloggers.ĭownload Bitdefender Removal Tool / Rootkit Remover Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions available. The scan takes merely a second to tell you if there are any rootkit threats detected.

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Bitdefender Removal Tool is free, portable and up-to-date (last update on February 2013) but can only detect known rootkits through signatures and not the undetected ones. We weren’t able to determine the if Bitdefender’s antirootkit tool is called “Removal Tool” or “Rootkit Remover” because the program’s name and website says differently when they are the exact same application.

Bitdefender Removal Tool / Rootkit Remover The “Remove selected items” button does not delete the infected files but replaces the last character of the file’s extension with an underscore, for example from. The result of AVG Anti-Rootkit is also the same as avast! where only All In One Keylogger is detected while missing Elite Keylogger and Invisible KeyLogger Stealth. The program requires installation, a reboot and either manually run as admin or disable UAC to run. This free anti-rootkit tool by AVG suffers the same fate as avast! because it has been abandoned since 2006 due to the integration of this anti-rootkit into their antivirus software. Clicking the “Fix Now!” button successfully deleted the files after a restart. Using rootkit detection technology based on GMER, avast! ANTIROOTKIT only managed to detect All In One Keylogger while missing the other two driver-based rootkit keyloggers. This free and portable anti rootkit tool by avast! is outdated and no longer being maintained since 2008 because it has been integrated into their antivirus program but can still be downloaded directly from their server.

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Since antivirus software are far from being perfect in catching rootkits, we’ve put 15 dedicated anti-rootkit tools to the test and see if they are able to detect the 3 different keyloggers (All In One Keylogger, Invisible KeyLogger Stealth, Elite Keylogger) that uses rootkit technology which we have installed on our test system. Antivirus software was not much of a help either because the Stuxnet worm successfully stayed infected on the computers for years before it was discovered by VirusBlokAda, the developer of VBA32 antivirus software.

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This is achieved through installing and loading kernel-mode drivers which can allow the malware to run with higher privileges.Īlthough 64-bit Windows operating systems are generally safe from rootkit infection because by default the operating system only accepts signed driver files, there were previous cases where legitimate digital certificates were stolen by hackers and used to sign rootkit drivers to bypass security software and Windows defenses.

Rootkit technology is able to hide its presence from the most basic tools built into Windows such as Task Manager, to your most trusted firewall or antivirus software and you won’t even know that it’s there. There are many different types of computer malware and the ones that use rootkit technologies are the worst because they are hardest to detect and remove.