Ewido or A2 detect rootkits?

[harddrive]

Does either A2 free or Ewido free detect a good variety of rootkits? If they don't does anyone know some good and SAFE (preferably free) programs that do detect a lot of different rootkits? Thanks for any help.

[TopperID]

There are some specialist tools available, you could try this:-

http://bagpuss.swan.ac.uk/comms/RKDetectorv0[1].62.z

I guess that regular ATs and AVs will find rootkits if they happen to have the sigs.

[spy1]

http://greatis.com/unhackme/ has a "run 10 times free" trial.

http://www.security.org.sg/code/kproccheck.html A command-line tool (requires knowing how to run it and how to interpret what the results mean). Pete