Preventing Agony

[Mark]

http://community.norton.com/t5/Norton-Protection-Blog/Preventing-Agony/ba-p/534966

It has always been in the interest of malware authors to hide their malware on an infected machine. They don’t want to make it easy for security vendors to find and remove their files. Rootkits are one of the most sophisticated methods malware authors use to stay undiscovered.
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[jamescv7]

Comprehensive information, rootkits must not be ignored as a simple virus.

 

[Deleted member 178]

absolutly, rootkits are now what trojans were 10 years ago