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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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Windows Root Kits a Stealthy Threat 2003-03-12
Anonymous
I forsee a day when OSes only boot from non-writable media into memory with physical isolation controls preventing alteration after boot (Great Shades of Microsoft!). And there will be no hooks for extensions to system level processes. You'll have to rebuild boot media to add extensions. ...

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