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Old 23rd May 2006 | 09:35
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stagger
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Originally Posted by Slasher
Another bloodey undetectable trojan/spyware program.
I call the death penaltey for these useless b@stards who write such programs and/or viruses and then let it loose in the wild.
Unfortunately it's not just another trojan/spyware program - Rootkits are a whole new class of program that hide themselves with very clever stealth procedures.

One of the first and most widespread was written by . . .


SONY

Sony CDs secretly install a rootkit
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