Microsoft Warns of Impossible to Clean Spyware
"The Inquirer has a story that the next generation of Windows spyware and exploits are starting to make use of "kernel rootkits". A paper at Microsoft Research has details on a prototype detection tool. Computerworld has more details, as well." From the article: "Newer rootkits can intercept system calls that are passed to the kernel and filter out queries generated by the software. This makes them invisible to administrators and to detection tools..."
http://www.computerworld.com/securit...,99843,00.html
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21326
http://research.microsoft.com/resear...0Report&id=775
I'm soooooooo happy that I don't use Windows