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Process stealthing rootkit

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Protection available since 16 December 2008 19:21:12 (GMT)
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More Information

Process stealthing rootkits are a family of kernel-mode driver rootkits.

Process stealthing rootkits are capable of hiding information about certain running processes, providing stealthing by patching the kernel service descriptor table.

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