Vista’s UAC spots rootkits

By Grant Draper

Vista’s Account Control feature sets itself to one side, compared to any predecessors, by locating rootkits before they actually install.

You can’t get much worse than a rootkit - they install themselves on a system and from then onwards effectively have control, allowing them to do what ever they want, whether that’s deleting information or retrieving personal data.

The highest scoring is the Avira AntiVir Premium Security Suite, although no suite that has been tested has proved to remove 100% of rootkits as of yet.