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Re: RE: softnyx install rootkits


From: "Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:30:26 -0400

On 11 Sep 2006 19:01:09 -0000, evilrabbi () gmail com <evilrabbi () gmail com> wrote:
Anything that totally alters the way windows works (eg inline function hooking) reguardless of the reason is a rootkit. 
What's even worse about gameguard is they don't tell you.


I thought a rootkit was a driver/etc running as system, or the windows
equivalent of root?

-JP

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