There are rootkits and rootkits. One thing that makes it a real rootkit is the lack of tools that may detect it and / or remove it.
Adaware may be useful for a lot of things. The real mean stuff must be catched with something more powerful. Blacklight will automaticly remove things, in Icesword there's no auto remove function, it's more a multipurpose tool to investigate by your own.
For example a lot of rootkits use twin processes to keep themselfs alive. If you kill one with eg. taskmanager, the other one will restart the one you just killed. In this situation you must be able to select multiple processes and pause the os while all the processes are killed.
Other features are searching for hidden registry entries, they are suspect in general. It will especially give you a good overview over all things that will autostart and also allows to log the autostart processes. It also gives more info than eg. Zomealarm on port activity and what apps are using them. Although you may have a look at the packets, one should use a traffic anlayzer for this purpose (eg. www.atelierweb.com )
Adaware may be useful for a lot of things. The real mean stuff must be catched with something more powerful. Blacklight will automaticly remove things, in Icesword there's no auto remove function, it's more a multipurpose tool to investigate by your own.
For example a lot of rootkits use twin processes to keep themselfs alive. If you kill one with eg. taskmanager, the other one will restart the one you just killed. In this situation you must be able to select multiple processes and pause the os while all the processes are killed.
Other features are searching for hidden registry entries, they are suspect in general. It will especially give you a good overview over all things that will autostart and also allows to log the autostart processes. It also gives more info than eg. Zomealarm on port activity and what apps are using them. Although you may have a look at the packets, one should use a traffic anlayzer for this purpose (eg. www.atelierweb.com )