What are the best rootkit scanners?

[conceptualclarity]

It seems like every security company has its own rootkit scanner these days.

I've run TDSSKiller and GMER. GMER was a mess: I've read it's only 64-bit support.

So what are the best rootkit scanners? Please evaluate for detection skill, intelligibility of results, and false positive rate.

Products that are not dedicated rootkit scanners but still do the job are welcome in the discussion.

 

[Faybert]

From this list I choose the Norton Power Eraser, we used it for testing in MH, powerful

 

[frogboy]

Same here Norton Power Eraser works well.

 

[Solarquest]

I use Tdsskiller, NPE (with boot scan), aswmbr, Malwarebytes Anti-Rootkit.
I recommend them in the same order as above.
JFY, according to an old MRG-effitas test Zemana should be good (but test was sponsored by Zemana).
https://www.mrg-effitas.com/mrg-eff...kit-remediation-comparative-analysis-2015-q3/

 

[darko999]

I recommend RootkitRevealer from Windows Sysinternals ideal for old computers that tend to be abused by malware.

 

[509322]

It seems like every security company has its own rootkit scanner these days.

I've run TDSSKiller and GMER. GMER was a mess: I've read it's only 64-bit support.

So what are the best rootkit scanners? Please evaluate for detection skill, intelligibility of results, and false positive rate.

Products that are not dedicated rootkit scanners but still do the job are welcome in the discussion.

For which version and bitness of Windows ?

 

[ForgottenSeer 55474]

Unhackme is awful , I voted Malwarebytes

 

[jerzy601]

my voice on Malwarebytes, but Zeman is good too.

 

[Prorootect]

Voted for:
PowerTool - antivirus & anti-rootkit, by IThurricane,
Look too on Gmer, PCHunter...

MT topics:
PowerTool 32-bit version Anti-rootkit and Antivirus tool
PowerTool 4.2 (2011.12.24 , english support)
PCHunter (XueTr) anti-rootkit new version

 

[Quassar]

Avira have rly solid builded rootkit scanner in av.. but stand alone i like kaspersky tool
and Sysinternal from M$

 

[bribon77]

Well: it's never wrong to have a second opinion.
But today almost all Avs or all have an anti-Rootkit protection module.
I'm talking about what I've tried lately.

Malwarebytes: has an Anti-Rootkit module.

Emsisoft Antimalware: has an Anti-Rootkit module.

KTS: has an Anti-Rootkit module.

Avast: when I tried it a long time ago, it had an Anti-Rootkit module.

In summary, I think Bitdender will have it and Avira, etc.

 

[212eta]

TDSSKiller & Norton Power Eraser

 

[ForgottenSeer 69673]

MSRT
Download Malicious Software Removal Tool from Official Microsoft Download Center

 

[Lightning_Brian]

As with many others such as @frogboy @Faybert @212eta @Solarquest , my vote goes to Norton Power Eraser and TDSSKiller (made by Kaspersky). I only keep TDSSKiller installed for as long as the scanning takes and I then remove it from my system. Norton is my main AV so Norton Power Eraser comes bundled.

A great honorable mention would be Malwarebytes as they still do a good job in finding this stuff.

~Brian