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Lately there has been a lot of discussion about rootkits and the type of threats they present. This article aims to provide a basic explanation of rootkits and how this low level technology can be used by malware developers to infiltrate computers in a way that is very difficult to detect and remove.

The name ‘rootkit’ is derived from the term "root", which is the name given to the superuser in the UNIX family of operating systems. [In the 1980s], hackers were known to infiltrate UNIX machines and install a program that provided a backdoor, enabling the hacker to return any time with full "root" privilages. The term ‘rootkit’ is now used in a similar way by modern-day researchers for Windows programs. Rootkits -The new wave of invisible malware is here - IT Observer

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