HOW TO FIGHT ROOTKIT?
Security professionals and enthusiasts are familiar with rootkits, but the general public is unaware of this type of malware which is mostly designed to hide in an infected system. But this threat is worth being known to the public because there is a good chance of meeting it one day. Cyber criminals are constantly developing new methods to steal your data and they are actively selling these methods to others. Their ability to be able to hide allows malware to remain in their victims' systems for months and even years, allowing hackers to use computers to do whatever they want. Even if the computer does not contain valuable information (which is unlikely), it can still be used to generate electronic money ("bitcoins"), send spam and participate in DDoS attacks. The rootkit functionality allows malicious activity to be hidden not only from monitoring tools built into the operating system, but also from virus scanners and firewall. That is why we advise you to check if y...