rootkit — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

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.

   Termini più generali

   malware

Verbo

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

   Uso

   • transitivo

   Parole correlate

   backdoortrojanvirusworm

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (1)

   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.