In the last few years the most dangerous computer viruses are disappearing. Macro viruses and script viruses are almost extinct.
But in the meantime there was an increase of trojan, backdoor, rootkit and spyware which can be used to remotely control a pc. There was an increment of malware that includes spyware programs from 54.2% to 66.4%.
Rootkits are becoming famous. They are used by virus writers to remotely control infected computers and use them for stealing money and perform DDOS attacks.
In the Windows world the rootkit term is usually used to describe viruses and malware programs that use a special technique to hide into the system environment. In Unix environment, rootkits are usually rewritten tools of the operating system that are used to hide data from the users. For example the ls command can be rewritten so that it doesnt show certain files.
There exist user-mode rootkits and kernel-mode rootkits. User-mode rootkits are basically normal processes that can be easily detected and eliminated. Kernel-mode rootkits are hidden inside of the operating system itself and caan be very hard to detect and eliminate.
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