Sophos Anti-Rootkit

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Sophos Anti-Rootkit1.5 released today.

New in this version:

* Support for disk and registry scanning on new platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows

Server 2003 SP2, Windows 7, and Windows 64-bit platforms.

* Sophos Anti-Rootkit uses virus data if Sophos Anti-Virus is installed, and will report threats more specifically

than if data is not present.

* Sophos Anti-Rootkit can now scan every file on the disk instead of just the hidden ones, which will potentially

find more malware. This option requires Sophos Anti-Virus to be installed.

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The scanning time has really gotten so much slower with this new version, however it checks all local disks.

I found this tidbit interesting though from the release notes, "sort of an up sell to get their av I suppose":

? Sophos Anti-Rootkit uses virus data if Sophos Anti-Virus is

installed, and will report threats more specifically than if data

is not present.

? Sophos Anti-Rootkit can now scan every file on the disk instead of

just the hidden ones, which will potentially find more malware.

This option requires Sophos Anti-Virus to be installed.