A rootkit is a collection of computer software, typically malicious, designed to enable access to a computer or an area of its software that is not otherwise...
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existence, leading to both programs being classified as rootkits. Sony BMG initially denied that the rootkits were harmful. It then released an uninstaller for...
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RootkitRevealer is a proprietary freeware tool for rootkit detection on Microsoft Windows by Bryce Cogswell and Mark Russinovich. It runs on Windows XP...
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preactivated without user authorization. The software agent behaves like a rootkit, reinstalling a small installer agent into the Windows OS at boot time...
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Rkhunter (redirect from Rootkit Hunter)
rkhunter (Rootkit Hunter) is a Unix-based tool that scans for rootkits, backdoors and possible local exploits. It does this by comparing SHA-1 hashes of...
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Extended Copy Protection (redirect from Sony rootkits)
Sony rootkit. Security researchers, beginning with Mark Russinovich in October 2005, have described the program as functionally identical to a rootkit: a...
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AFX Windows Rootkit 2003 is a user mode rootkit that hides files, processes and registry. When the installer of the rootkit is executed, the installer...
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performs log analysis, integrity checking, Windows registry monitoring, rootkit detection, time-based alerting, and active response. It provides intrusion...
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Intel Management Engine (redirect from Ring -3 rootkit)
September 2018, yet another vulnerability was published (SA-00125). A ring −3 rootkit was demonstrated by Invisible Things Lab for the Q35 chipset; it does not...
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hypervisor-based rootkit. In 2009, researchers from Microsoft and North Carolina State University demonstrated a hypervisor-layer anti-rootkit called Hooksafe...
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