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“>This article is an excerpt from the book Counter Hack: A Step-by-Step Guide to Computer Attacks and Effective Defenses (Prentice Hall PTR, 2001), by Ed Skoudis.Traditional RootKits are a very insidious form of Trojan horse back door. Traditional RootKits raise the ante by altering or replacing existing system components, as shown in Figure 1. Rather than running as a foreign application (such as Netcat or Back Orifice 2000), traditional RootKits replace critical operating sy 
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