Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A set of software tools used to gain unauthorized access to a computer system on a network and to control its operation.
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- noun computing A set of
software tools used by athird party after gaining access to acomputer system in order toconceal the altering offiles , orprocesses beingexecuted by the third party without the user'sknowledge . - verb transitive To infect (a computer system) with a rootkit.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The term rootkit is used to define a Trojan (or technology) used to hide the presence of a malicious object (process, file, registry key, network port) from the computer user or
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The term rootkit is used to define a Trojan (or technology) used to hide the presence of a malicious object (process, file, registry key, network port) from the computer user or administrator.
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All a rootkit is capable of doing is hiding something from the windows api.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Ha! Sony just earned points…these new ads are awesome. 2009
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A rootkit is a tool designed to go undetected by the security software used to lock down control of a computer after an initial attack (read: anti-virus and firewalls are useless).
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If the Sony DRM rootkit is active (hiding) in the system during infection, the bot will not run at all.
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A rootkit is a set of tools developed to crack a computer system.
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With the amount of press coverage the dirty rootkit is getting, whatever happens it will be hard for Sony to come out of the whole mess without a bigger PR disaster on their hands than they already have.
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Within a week, a "rootkit" -- a form of malicious software -- had been installed on its hard drive.
Data Storage Today 2009
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They are called "rootkit" A rootkit is a collection of programs that a hacker uses to mask intrusion and obtain administrator-level access to a computer or computer network.
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The software appeared to be a. sys component hiding behind a rootkit, which is software that is designed to hide the fact that a computer has been compromised, according to Trend Micro.
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