Rootkit Creators Turn Professional

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."

How dare they!

[LiquidCoooled]

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

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

Risk to burn karma but...

[jamesjw]

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.

Sell rootkits and become a billionaire!

[crazy_zulu]

One company in Redmond has made billions from selling rootkits.

MOD PARENT UP!!!

[gazbo]

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

Re:Risk to burn karma but...

[Eric Giguere]

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 [ericgiguere.com]

Re:Risk to burn karma but...

[ajs318]

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

arms race

[kars]

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

Re:Risk to burn karma but...

[MichaelSmith]

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.

Re:How dare they!

[Geminus]

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.
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