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Rootkits, Part 1 of 3: The Growing Threat

Source: McAfee
Date: January 2008
Type: White Paper
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Overview: Rootkits are a persistent and evasive danger to today’s system. Increasingly sophisticated stealth techniques make detecting root kits and stopping the damage they cause a significant challenge. This paper distinguishes between stealth techniques that are simply strategies for concealing files, processes and activities, and the term rootkit, which has come to be associated with malware that conceals its activities.


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