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Mal/Rootkit-A

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Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
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Mal/Rootkit-A is a stealthing Trojan which typically attempts to hide itself and/or other processes.

Mal/Rootkit-A Trojans attempt to hook the Service Descriptor Table to provide stealthing functionality or spy on other processes.

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