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Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Rootkits on the rise
McAfee Labs say that the number of rootkits used by malicious attackers to hide various software grew 700 percent in the first quarter, compared to the same time last year. Mcafee found 827 different rootkits in the first four months, which is even more than it found for whole last year.
Security experts presume that cooperation amongst hackers, numerous websites and blogs containing root codes and binary executables all helped rootkits to spread and become even more difficult to detect and get rid of.
The only way to stop the fast growth and spread of rootkits is with the coming of Windows Vista, McAfee thinks.