Archives: April2010

• What is a Rootkit and How Can it Affect Me?

    If you’ve ever heard the term “rootkit” used, it probably hasn’t been under very good circumstances. Most people first heard of the term when Sony BMG was discovered to have installed rootkit software on their music CDs as an anti-pirating device. But what is a rootkit program, what can it do to your computer, and how should you protect yourself against them? A rootkit is a program that installs itself in a computer’s root directory and allows [...]

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• Rootkit on XP Systems to Block Installation of XP Updates – SPAMfighter News

  Rootkit on XP Systems to Block Installation of XP UpdatesSPAMfighter NewsThe Microsoft sources said that the updates would carry out a computer scan to ensure that the system don't have the rootkit on its system files. … View full post on rootkit – Google News

• Hackers

  This is the very first episode of the Net Cafe series. It was shot on location at a cybercafe in San Francisco called CoffeeNet. It looks at the hacker culture and their influence on the early growth of the internet. Guests include Dan Farmer, author of SATAN and COPS; Elias Levi (aka Aleph 1), webmaster of underground.org and Bugtraq; also “Reid Fleming” and “White Knight” from Cult of the Dead Cow. Originally broadcast in 1996.

• Computer Viruses:-

  Computer Viruses:-   The world of computers and information technology is going through an era of an electronic terrorism, in the form of the computer virus. It is a problem that is potentially so dangerous that it threatens the proper functioning of the virus system in today’s information age. The virus whether biological or electronic is an information disorder. Biological viruses are tiny genetic codes DNA or RNA that take over the machinery of a living cell and are capable [...]

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• Spokane company helps uncover cyberspace bandits – The Spokesman Review

  Spokane company helps uncover cyberspace banditsThe Spokesman ReviewLawson, who offered to assist Maxwell and The Artisans in uncovering what happened, looked at the Artisans office PC and found a rootkit as the source of …and more » View full post on rootkit – Google News

• Rootkits – All That You Ever Wanted to Know About Them

  As simple the name sounds, so complex is the infestation. Rootkits are programs that are infested on computers that allow someone to extract admin-level access to the system without the knowledge or consent of the end user. Basically rootkits allow a person other than the user to administratively control the computer. Rootkits have two main functions: • Remote control through back door • Software eavesdropping Because rootkits allow for a third party administrator control, legitimate or otherwise, the back end [...]