Rootkits Becoming More Complex
The bad news is that McAfee claims that rootkits are becoming more complex. The good news is that, although they are getting more sophisticated, the actual number of rootkits found in malicious software has decreased by 15%.
The bad news is that McAfee claims that rootkits are becoming more complex. The good news is that, although they are getting more sophisticated, the actual number of rootkits found in malicious software has decreased by 15%.
Rootkits--malicious software operating in a stealth fashion by hiding its files, processes and registry keys--have grown in complexity over the past five years from 27 components to 2,400, according to McAfee's Rootkits Part 2: A Technical Primer.
