rootkit — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. A set of software tools used by a third party to gain unauthorized access to a computer system and control the system while concealing itself from the user.

   Oberbegriffe

   malware

Verb

1. To infect (a computer system) with a rootkit.

   Gebrauch

   • transitiv

   Verwandte Wörter

   backdoortrojanvirusworm

   Beispiele

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   Given crackers' propensity for "rootkitting" systems — installing altered system binaries to facilitate future access — systematic integrity checks using message digest algorithms or one-way hash functions can be an important detection safeguard.

   If not, your system might have been rootkitted.