Microsoft's GhostBuster will sniff out trojans

Cory Doctorow 7:23 am Tue Feb 15, 2005

Microsoft has created a promising-sounding app for finding and eliminating trojans and other malware, called GhostBuster. Bruce Schneier has a great writeup:

The user has the GhostBuster program on a CD. He sticks the CD in the drive, and from within the (possibly corrupted) OS, the checker program runs: stopping all other user programs, flushing the caches, and then doing a complete checksum of all files on the disk and a scan of any registry keys that could autostart the system, writing out the results to a file on the hard drive.

Then the user is instructed to press the reset button, the CD boots its own OS, and the scan is repeated. Any differences indicate a rootkit or other stealth software, without the need for knowing what particular rootkits are or the proper checksums for the programs installed on disk.

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