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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 2003-03-13
Anonymous
You *can* write a rootkit in user-mode, but it won't be stealthy (compared to kernel-mode). In kernel-mode you have privileged access to the inner workings of windows. One example (given in the article) is hiding the binaries by intercepting the file io api. Another would be achieving network commun...

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