RootkitRevealer is a proprietary

freeware Freeware is software, most often proprietary, that is distributed at no monetary cost to the end user. There is no agreed-upon set of rights, license, or EULA that defines ''freeware'' unambiguously; every publisher defines its own rules for t ...

tool for

rootkit A rootkit is a collection of computer software, typically malicious, designed to enable access to a computer or an area of its software that is not otherwise allowed (for example, to an unauthorized user) and often masks its existence or the exis ...

detection on Microsoft Windows by

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and

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. It runs on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 (32-bit-versions only). Its output lists

Windows Registry The Windows Registry is a hierarchical database that stores low-level settings for the Microsoft Windows operating system and for applications that opt to use the registry. The kernel, device drivers, services, Security Accounts Manager, and u ...

and file system API discrepancies that may indicate the presence of a rootkit. It is the same tool that triggered the

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. RootkitRevealer is no longer being developed.

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