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Rootkit Creators Turn Professional

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the where-the-money-is dept.

pete richards writes "Signalling a trend towards increased 'outsourcing' of some elements of malware creation, worm authors are increasingly turning to commercially available rootkits to help their creations slip past virus detection engines. Those root kits in the mean time are becoming more professional. Antivirus vendor F-Secure reported last week that it had detected a first rootkit designed to bypass detection by most of the modern rootkit detection engines."

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  1. How dare they! by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Funny

    Rootkits should be GPL.
    At the very least they should be GNU/Rootkits.

    Somebody contact the EFF or like start throwing chairs or something.

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    liqbase :: faster than paper
    1. Re:How dare they! by Geminus · · Score: 5, Funny

      Someone should develop the ultimate rootkit, patent it's code... and then sue the antivirus companies for IP infringement when they include it's code in their latest definition.
      "All your oil belong to us."

  2. Risk to burn karma but... by jamesjw · · Score: 5, Funny

    def n.: Rootkit:
    When an Australian male carries a few spare condoms with him on a night out.

    Ahhh.. maybe I shouldnt have bothered.. :)

    -- Jim.

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    -- If at first you don't succeed, lie!
    1. Re:Risk to burn karma but... by Eric+Giguere · · Score: 2, Funny

      If that's the aussie definition of a rootkit, what's the aussie definition of a trojan? Ahhh... never mind...

      Eric
      How the Vioxx recall reduced worldwide spam
    2. Re:Risk to burn karma but... by ajs318 · · Score: 5, Funny

      And no doubt the Aussie definition of an optimist is an opening batsman with sunblock on his nose!

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    3. Re:Risk to burn karma but... by MichaelSmith · · Score: 4, Funny
      the Aussie definition of an optimist is an opening batsman with sunblock on his nose

      In India, where they really do have sunlight, that might be true.

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  3. Sell rootkits and become a billionaire! by crazy_zulu · · Score: 5, Funny

    One company in Redmond has made billions from selling rootkits.

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    ...and one flew over the cuckoo's nest.
  4. MOD PARENT UP!!! by gazbo · · Score: 0, Funny

    In case you don't get it, what he's saying is that Windows is insecure!

  5. arms race by kars · · Score: 5, Funny

    So now we can wait for the AV vendors to come up with a rootkit detector detector detector..

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    Take life easy: one bit at a time.