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2. Rootkit - Wikipedia

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   As of 2005, Microsoft's monthly Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool is able to detect and remove some classes of rootkits. Also, Windows Defender Offline can remove rootkits, as it runs from a trusted environment before the operating system starts.

3. Malicious Software Removal Tool - Wikipedia

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   Although Windows XP support ended on April 8, 2014, updates for the Windows XP version of the Malicious Software Removal Tool would be provided until August, 2016; version 5.39. The latest version of MSRT for Windows Vista is 5.47, released on 11 April 2017. Despite Microsoft ending general support for the Windows 7 operating system in 2020 ...

4. Extended Copy Protection - Wikipedia

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   One month later, Microsoft released an update for its Malicious Software Removal Tool which could clean the F4IRootkit malware. [10] [11] The somewhat slow and incomplete response of some antivirus companies has, however, been questioned by Bruce Schneier , information security expert and author of security articles and texts, including Secrets ...

5. Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal - Wikipedia

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   He noted that the EULA does not mention the software, and he charged that the software is illegitimate and that digital rights management had "gone too far". Anti-virus firm F-Secure concurred: "Although the software isn't directly malicious, the used rootkit hiding techniques are exactly the same used by malicious software to hide. The DRM ...

6. Computer virus - Wikipedia

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   Microsoft offers an optional free antivirus utility called Microsoft Security Essentials, a Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool that is updated as part of the regular Windows update regime, and an older optional anti-malware (malware removal) tool Windows Defender that has been upgraded to an antivirus product in Windows 8.

7. Scareware - Wikipedia

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   Winwebsec is the term usually used to address the malware that attacks the users of Windows operating system and produces fake claims similar to that of genuine anti-malware software. SpySheriff exemplifies spyware and scareware: it purports to remove spyware, but is actually a piece of spyware itself, often accompanying SmitFraud infections.