Rootkit Scanner

Janiashvili

Hi,

 

Where is the rootkit scanning option in 1.86 version?

Tomi

Hi Janiashvili,

 

Rootkit scanning has been removed from the UI as part of our continuous process of renovating our products and simplifying them. Rootkit scanning is still performed when Full System scan is run, so just the dedicated option has been removed.

Janiashvili

Now, I can not run rootkit scan anymore, as Full System scan takes almost ten hours.

 

 

Thank you F-Secure, you're doing it wrong.

Tomi

Hello Janiashvili,

Ten hours sounds indeed quite lengthy for a full system scan. Have you tried how long the Full System scan takes if you disable the archive scanning from the manual scan settings?

Janiashvili

Then, I think, it'll take a lot shorter time.

And, from importance, does archive scanning do any good? I mean, the antivirus will scan archive on demand(in the opening), so what's the point of archive scanning?

Tomi

Protection wise it is sufficient to scan the files in the archive only when they are accessed and this way preventing them on acting on your system. Scanning archives on demand is still useful in certain sceanrios, such as having a possibility to scan larger amount of downloaded archives for example.

Rusli

Alternatively, you can use Hitman pro cloud scanning for rootkit scanning.

 

http://www.surfright.nl/en/home/

 

or 

 

http://security.symantec.com/nbrt/npe.aspx

 

or 

 

http://www.freedrweb.com/cureit/?lng=en