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Commander Julius Root, often nicknamed "Beetroot" due to his frequently purple facial complexion, was the commander of the LEPrecon (Lower Elements Police Reconnaissance) during the time Artemis Fowl first discovered the fairy world. Before his promotion to Major, Root was the most successful field operative in LEPrecon history, with numerous ...
Torpig, also known as Anserin or Sinowal is a type of botnet spread through systems compromised by the Mebroot rootkit by a variety of trojan horses for the purpose of collecting sensitive personal and corporate data such as bank account and credit card information.
The term rootkit, rkit, or root kit originally referred to a maliciously modified set of administrative tools for a Unix-like operating system that granted "root" access. [4] If an intruder could replace the standard administrative tools on a system with a rootkit, the intruder could obtain root access over the system whilst simultaneously ...
Sony BMG quickly released software to remove the rootkit component of XCP from affected Microsoft Windows computers, [15] but after Russinovich analyzed the utility, he reported in his blog that it only exacerbated the security problems and raised further concerns about privacy. [16]
Koboi lures Commander Julius Root and Captain Holly Short of the LEP into a lava chute alone. She then kills Commander Root with an explosive attached to his body. The explosive is invisible on camera and she tricks Holly into shooting it in an attempt to defuse it, framing Holly as the murderer.
GMER is a software tool written by a Polish researcher Przemysław Gmerek, for detecting and removing rootkits. [1] [2] It runs on Microsoft Windows and has support for Windows NT, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 10. With version 2.0.18327 full support for Windows x64 is added. [3] [4] [5]
rkhunter (Rootkit Hunter) is a Unix-based tool that scans for rootkits, backdoors and possible local exploits. [1] It does this by comparing SHA-1 hashes of important files with known good ones in online databases, searching for default directories (of rootkits), wrong permissions, hidden files, suspicious strings in kernel modules, and special tests for Linux and FreeBSD. rkhunter is notable ...
RootkitRevealer is a proprietary freeware tool for rootkit detection on Microsoft Windows by Bryce Cogswell and Mark Russinovich. [2] [3] [4] It runs on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 (32-bit-versions only). Its output lists Windows Registry and file system API discrepancies that may indicate the presence of a rootkit.