Microsoft has been building firmware-level defenses into Windows 10 Secured-Core PCs for the enterprise, and now it's bringing similar capabilities to its enterprise antivirus software, Microsoft ...

Rootkits are scary and becoming a larger and larger menace to our computers every day. In the past if our computers were infected with a piece of malware, we simply removed it and we were clean of the ...

There are indications that the system crashes and the dreaded blue screen of death (BSoD) that many Microsoft Windows users reported suffering after installing this week’s batch of security updates ...

LAS VEGAS—Just when anti-virus vendors think they have a bead on the threat from stealth rootkits, along comes word that a pair of researchers have discovered a new way to hide malicious programs.

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Editor’s note: Microsoft clarified its MBR rootkit removal advice after this story was posted. Microsoft is telling Windows users that they’ll have to reinstall the operating system if they get ...

Recently we had a fear that one of our external servers was owned. I started looking around at possible rootkit investigation techniques in the windows world. The best I saw right off the bat was the ...