A startup funded by the U.S. government's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is ready to emerge from stealth mode with hardware- and software-based technologies to fight the rapid spread of malicious rootkits. Komoku, of College Park, Md., plans to ship a beta of Gamma, a new rootkit detection tool that builds on a prototype used by several sensitive U.S. government departments to find operating system abnormalities that may be linked to malicious rootkit activity.

A rootkit modifies the flow of the kernel to hide the presence of an attack or compromise on a machine. It gives a hacker remote user access to a compromised system while avoiding detection from anti-virus scanners. The company's prototype, called CoPilot, is a high-assurance PCI card capable of monitoring the host's memory and file system at the hardware level. It is specifically geared towards high-security servers and computers.

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Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by soumyasch on 24 Apr 2006 - 10:56
now such things should be integrated into the os itself.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by Havin_it on 24 Apr 2006 - 13:15
Gamma's gone beta, eh?

I had the alpha, y'know....

I wonder if it's a full ISO or a delta..?


/gets coat
Quote this comment #2.1 Posted by icebrain on 24 Apr 2006 - 15:21
funny guy
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