Microsofts new initiative against rootkits.

In the Microsoft Research Strider project, we take a black-box, state-based, and component-based approach (a.k.a. computer genomics approach) to systems management and diagnostics. The statistical data analyses that we produce and the infrastructures and tools that we build help users manage their systems today and help developers design new operating systems with better manageability tomorrow.
http://www.computerworld.com/securit...,99843,00.html
http://research.microsoft.com/rootkit/
http://research.microsoft.com/csm/strider/