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Bill Sanderson Guest. There's room for some debate about this. Windows Defender did detect the. Sony software which Mark Russinovich discovered originally, and which was. essentially a rootkit. The Malicious Software Removal tool, which I hope everyone here is running. once a month as part of the monthly security patch download, specializes in. some rootkit families.
Rootkits. Malware authors use rootkits to hide malware on your PC. Malware hidden by rootkits often monitor, filter, and steal your data or abuse your computerâs resources, such as using your PC for bitcoin mining.or example, if you were to ask your PC to list all of the programs that are running, the rootkit might stealthily remove any programs it doesnât want you to know about. In other words, rootkits are all about hiding things. They want to hide themselves on your PC, and they want to hide malicious activity on your PC.