Half of all rootkits still not detected by AV software

Now that the media interest in rootkits seems to have all but evaporated, you might be forgiven for thinking that the problem has been solved, that the bad guys have moved on to another mode of attack, that the good guys have won. Forgiven, but wrong. According to the latest tests by those hardy chaps over at AV.Test who, funnily enough, spend pretty much their entire working lives being a thorn in the side of the AV industry by putting security products under the microscope and testing them until they burst, rootkits are still very much on the criminal radar.