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This programs will search-and-destroy the rootkits that may be hiding in your Windows PC/Server. Check this list of free Rootkit Detectors for Windows:

Rootkit Unhooker
Web: www.rku.xell.ru/?l=e.mspx
Price: Free
Summary: Summary: A Russian-authored tool that's the most comprehensive and powerful of those tested here.

F-Secure BlackLight
Web: www.f-secure.com
Price: Free
Summary: A time-limited program that may soon be discontinued and folded into F-Secure Internet Security 2006, BlackLight nonetheless scans carefully and attempts to clean offending files from the system.

IceSword
Web: www.blogcn.com/user17/pjf/index.html
Price: Free
Summary: Summary: A bit difficult to find due to its authorship, but a remarkably thorough and continually updated tool with some excellent pro-level features.

RKDetector
Web: www.rkdetector.com
Price: Free
Summary: Composed of two separate applications that scan the file system and running processes, respectively, RKDetector suffers from not having the flexibility and breadth of features of the other programs here.

Trend Micro RootkitBuster
Web: www.trendmicro.com
Price: Free
Summary: A spin-off / standalone version of the rootkit scanning technology from one of Trend Micro's commercial programs, which actually works quite well on its own.

RootkitRevealer
Web: www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/RootkitRevealer.mspx
Price: Free
Summary: Summary: One of the first rootkit detectors, it's now overshadowed a bit by some of the other programs here but can still do some decent work.

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