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Offline Lisandro

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Plans for a standalone antirootkit
« on: February 26, 2011, 02:40:00 AM »
Any?
Was the engine of the 0.9.6 version updated inside avast?
Why wouldn't it get an upgrade?
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Re: Plans for a standole antirootkit
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2011, 02:50:48 AM »
There is an MBR rootkit scanner under development right now :

http://public.avast.com/~gmerek/aswMBR.htm

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Re: Plans for a standalone antirootkit
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2011, 02:54:29 AM »
Hmmm... Is it scanning anything else than the MBR itself?
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