rootkit

Detect And Remove Rootkit

What is the best (hopefully free or cheap) way to detect and then, if necessary, remove a rootkit found on your machine? ...

set_memory_* functions in Linux Kernel >=2.6.25

Hi, I'm doing research about rootkits and I have received a lot of warnings like` "BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at [addr]" when I tried to attach my own function to sys_call_table[__NR_read], for example. In kernels <=2.6.25, function change_page_attr() helped with changing page attributes of a certain address. However...

Windows 7: Taking advantage of auto-elevation to elevate my own process?

From a July 2009 Technet article entitled Inside Windows 7 User Account Control, Mark Russinovish describes that it's possible for an application running as standard user to silently elevate and gain administrative rights: ...it's possible for third-party software running in a PA (Protected Administrator) account with standard us...