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Posted by kurt wismer on January 6, 2007, 12:53 am
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> With multiple developers jumping on the bandwagon to come up with detection
> tools, I'm just curious: how big a problem or prevalent are rootkits? I'm
> asking because I don't know.
i think you're asking the wrong question...
i think you should be asking "how big a problem is stealth"... the so
called 'rootkits' are just a means to that end... now, take into account
the financial motivation behind malware nowadays and the free access
to 'rootkit' source code and r&d on the net, and you will probably
realize that however bad the stealth problem may be it's almost
certainly going to get considerably worse...
there will come a time when no serious commercial malware will be
without stealth technology in some form or another... free development
and free code that adds value to commercial malware - it's kind of like
free money, everyone (in the commercial black hat camp at least) will
want some of that...
--
"it's not the right time to be sober
now the idiots have taken over
spreading like a social cancer,
is there an answer?"
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