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Rootkit

A rootkit is a collection of typically malicious computer software designed to enable access to a computer or to part of its software that would not otherwise be allowed (for example, by an unauthorized user). Rootkits often mask their presence or that of other software. The term rootkit is a compound of "root" (the traditional name of the privileged…

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Rootkit

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related to Further reading · 36
Rootkit → Addison-Wesley Professional, AT, Bell Laboratories Technical Journal, Bibcode, Bill, Blunden, Butler, Dark Corners, Designing BSD Rootkits, Escape, Evasion, Grampp, Greg, Hoglund, ISBN, James, Joseph, Kong, Morris, No Starch Press
related to Firmware and hardware · 25
Rootkit → Absolute CompuTrace, Absolute LoJack, ACPI, Alfredo Ortega, Anibal Sacco, BIOS, BIOS-level Windows, European, Hardware, In March, In October, Intel, Intel Active Management Technology, John Heasman, Laptops, OS, PC, PCI, PCs, Remote
related to history · 23
Rootkit → Additionally, Advanced, Bell Labs, BIOS, Brain, DOS-virus, Helix Cloaking, If, In, INT, Ken Thompson, Lane Davis, Over, Steven Dake, Sun Microsystems' SunOS UNIX, The, These, This, Tripwire, Turing Award
related to Kernel mode · 23
Rootkit → Any, As, DKOM, For, Greg Hoglund, In, It, Kernel, Kernel-mode, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Most, One, Operating, Phrack, Ring, Similarly, SSDT, System Service Descriptor Table, The
related to Defenses · 21
Rootkit → Another, Applying, CPU, Experimental, For, In, Intel Trusted Execution Technology, Intel TXT, Linux, LKM, Microsoft Bitlocker's, New, PrivateCore, System, The PrivateCore, The VTW, TXT, UEFI, Virtual Wall, VTW
related to Hypervisor level · 21
Rootkit → AMD-V, Blue Pill, By, CPU, Device Guard, For, Hooksafe, In, Intel VT, Michigan, Microsoft, North Carolina State University, Ring, Rootkits, SubVirt, The, Type II Hypervisors, University, Unlike, VMBR
related to Detection · 20
Rootkit → Actions, Any, As, Avast Antivirus, CPU, Detection, F-Secure, For, For Windows, GMER, In, Microsoft Sysinternals RootkitRevealer, OSSEC, Radix, Sophos Anti-Rootkit, System Call Table, The, Unix, WindowsSCOPE, Zeppoo
related to Removal · 20
Rootkit → Also, APIs, As, BartPE, Booting, Even, Instead, Lightweight, Live Distros, Manual, Microsoft's, Some, There, This, Tool, Windows Defender Offline, Windows Malicious Software Removal, Windows PE, Windows Recovery Console, Windows Recovery Environment
related to Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal (2005) · 16
Rootkit → CD, CDs, Extended Copy Protection, First, In, Internet, Mark Russinovich, One BBC, RootkitRevealer, Russinovich's, Software, Sony BMG, Soon, The, To, United States
related to User mode · 16
Rootkit → APIs, Debuggers, DLL, Exploitation, For, Function, Injection, Interception, Mac OS, Ring, Some, They, Use, User-mode, Windows, Windows Explorer

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system rootkits operating software detection kernel windows may security access malware code example memory detect trusted used kernel-mode firmware systems

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Rootkitis acollection of typically malicious computer software designed to enable access to a computer or to part of its software that would not otherwise be allowed0.90text
Rootkitis acompound of0.90text
Tripwire that had not been compromised to access the same informationinstance ofThese first-generation rootkits were trivial to detect by using tools0.80text
SafeDiscinstance ofand Daemon Tools are commercial examples of non-hostile rootkits used to defeat copy-protection mechanisms0.80text
SecuROMinstance ofand Daemon Tools are commercial examples of non-hostile rootkits used to defeat copy-protection mechanisms0.80text
Intel VT or AMD-Vinstance ofBy exploiting hardware virtualization features0.80text
this type of rootkit runs in Ring -1instance ofBy exploiting hardware virtualization features0.80text
hosts the target operating system as a virtual machineinstance ofBy exploiting hardware virtualization features0.80text
thereby enabling the rootkit to intercept hardware calls made by the original operating systeminstance ofBy exploiting hardware virtualization features0.80text
requesting a list of running processesinstance ofActions0.80text
or a list of files in a directoryinstance ofActions0.80text
cannot be trusted to behave as expectedinstance ofActions0.80text

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