A rootkit is a program that is designed to gain administrator privileges on your computer. Therefore it is very dangerous and very difficult to detect by conventional antivirus programs. Moreover, some antivirus software (such as Bitdefender) detects rootkit but can not delete, disinfect or put in quarantine.
Actions as a threat of rootkits are: infects the BIOS, the boot manager (boot-loader software), operating system kernel and applications installed on your computer.
A rootkit wipe using some specific applications, so-called rootkit tools:
- RootkitRevealer ;
My recommendation is to use the row of each type of anti-rootkit.









