Rootkits: The Ultimate Stealth Attack

Posted by Larry on May 3rd, 2005 filed in Technology

Ever hear of a rootkit? It’s a surreptitious program that is specifically designed to conceal its presence on your system, most likely toward some malicious end. How does a rootkit evade detection?
The answer is that it makes the operating system lie by intercepting calls to the system and modifying the results they send to programs.

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