And we're going to use rootkit technology to do it.

A computer with a rootkit virus is one step away from being taken over.

Did you get a lot of calls about the Sony rootkit?

And the way the rootkit got around this is a lesson in security for us.

If it disappears, you know you've got the rootkit on your system.

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The rootkit thing at Sony was a very important turning point.

In order to hide files, the rootkit would do something similar.

In that article, he demonstrated analysis of a memory based rootkit.

And you certainly wouldn't want to have a rootkit.

However, this is not the case with a kernel type rootkit.

A traditional rootkit would get run at some point during boot-up, just not so early.

Well, the rootkit didn't realize that Windows had been updated.

Well, I know in fact a rootkit would not show up in the process list.

That's, like, people are calling it a rootkit because we don't have anything lower than root.

The book takes the reader in depth about rootkit technology and uses.

But before we get to today's topic, let's kind of wrap up this rootkit.

This class of rootkit has unrestricted security access, but is more difficult to write.

But the big story this week is a big company that's using rootkit technology.

So, I mean, it is a true rootkit technology.

They're putting a rootkit on your system that could be used by any moron.

Banker Rootkit, yeah, because it's going to suck out all your money.

So, you know, we've talked about who's on first as being the competition with a rootkit versus the operating system.

The rootkit means it's down in the operating system.

It is kind of not appropriate to call it a rootkit.