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Windows Root Kits a Stealthy Threat
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2003-03-05

Hackers are using vastly more sophisticated techniques to secretly control the machines they've cracked, and experts say it's just the beginning.

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Hacker Defender and NAV 2003-03-06
Anonymous
KLP wrote:

"Hacker Defender, oddly, is also available for download from CNET Asia ... (SecurityFocus is owned by Symantec)."

Even more oddly, Symantec's Norton AntiVirus 2003 with 3/5/03 definitions does not detect the rootkit in the zip file from CNET Asia or in the extracted files.

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