On 11 Sep 2006 19:01:09 -0000, evilrabbi (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed] <evilrabbi (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed]> wrote:
> Anything that totally alters the way windows works (eg inline function hooking) reguardless of the reason is a rootkit. What's even worse about gameguard is they don't tell you.
>
I thought a rootkit was a driver/etc running as system, or the windows
equivalent of root?
-JP
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> Anything that totally alters the way windows works (eg inline function hooking) reguardless of the reason is a rootkit. What's even worse about gameguard is they don't tell you.
>
I thought a rootkit was a driver/etc running as system, or the windows
equivalent of root?
-JP
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