Detekt — Free Anti-Malware Tool To Detect Govt. Surveillance Malware

November 21, 2014 – 5:30 AM

Human rights experts and Privacy International have launched a free tool allowing users to scan their computers for surveillance spyware, typically used by governments and other organizations to spy on human rights activists and journalists around the world.

This free-of-charge anti-surveillance tool, called Detekt, is an open source software app released in partnership with Human rights charity Amnesty International, Germany’s Digitale Gesellschaft, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Privacy International, in order to combat government surveillance.

Source:
http://thehackernews.com/2014/11/detekt-free-anti-malware-tool-to-detect_20.html