GOOD SOFTWARE

GOOD SOFTWARE

  February 02, 2018

GMER is a software tool written by a Polish researcher Przemysław Gmerek, for detecting and removing rootkits.^[1][2] It runs on Microsoft Windows and has support for Windows NT, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 10. With version 2.0.18327 full support for Windows x64 is added.^[3][4][5]

At the time of first release in 2004 it introduced innovative rootkit detection techniques and quickly gained popularity for its effectiveness. It was incorporated into a few antivirus tools including Avast! antivirus^[6]and SDFix.^[7]

For several months in 2006 and 2007, the tool's website was the target of heavy DDoS attacks attempting to block its downloads.^[8]