引述 :『GMER is an application that detects and removes rootkits .』

引述 :『invisiblethings.org is a non-profit website dedicated for sharing the thoughts of its author in the area of computer systems and network security. 』

引述 :『paleshadows writes "A year and a half has passed since SubVirt, the first VMM (virtual machine monitor) based rootkit, was introduced (PDF), covered in the tech press, and discussed here. Later Joanna Rutkowska made news by claiming she had a VMM-based attack on Vista that was undetectable — a claim that was roundly challenged. Now in this year's HotOS workshop, researchers from Stanford, CMU, VMware, and XenSource have published a paper titled Compatibility Is Not Transparency: VMM Detection Myths and Realities (PDF) showing that VMM-based rootkits are actually easily detectable."』

引述 :『rootkit程式會用盡所有的技術或技巧來隱藏自己和所挾帶的惡意軟體，讓使用者不知道也找不到電腦裡的rootkit程式，而這往往也使得rootkit很難被移除，因此如果電腦被植入rootkit，大多建議清除並重新安裝系統，因為敵暗我明，很難確定是不是已經將所有的rootkit程式檔案都清除乾淨，而且系統檔案也可能已經遭到rootkit修改。』

引述 :『AVG Anti-Rootkit Free is a powerful tool with state-of-the-art technology for the detection and removal of rootkits.』