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Windows Rootkit Wars Escalate

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the most-secure-version-of-windows-ever dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The rootkit wars have started to escalate with a rootkit named Rustock which is able to remain hidden from all the popular anti-rootkit tools. It uses some new techniques including not only putting itself in a ADS (NTFS alternate data stream) which isn't seen by normal file system enumeration tools, but even blocks ADS aware tools from seeing the stream. Works in Vista, too! Analysis in both Symantec and F-Secure blogs."

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  1. Meanwhile, MS releases a rootkit of their own... by yeremein · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Microsoft Private Folder 1.0 uses rootkit-like techniques to hide encrypted files from the Win32 API. I wrote a little about it in
    my blog a few days ago.