Penetration Testing: Windows rootkits

["Erin Carroll" <amoeba () amoebazone com>]

The following Infocus:Windows technical article was published on
SecurityFocus yesterday:

Windows rootkits in 2005, part one
By James Butler and Sherri Sparks
2005-11-04

This three-part article series looks at Windows rootkits indepth. Part one
discusses what a rootkit is and what makes them so dangerous, by looking at
various modes of execution and how they talk to the Windows kernel.

http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1850


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Erin Carroll
SecurityFocus Pen-Test list Moderator
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