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rootkit Last modified: Wednesday, July 27, 2005
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eWeek News: UConn Finds Rootkit in Hacked Server The University of Connecticut has detected a rootkit on one of its servers, almost two years after the stealth program was placed there by malicious hackers. Recognizing and Recovering from Rootkit Attacks Installing Rootkit is one of the more popular activities of serious Internet intruders once they have obtained root privileges of a workstation running SunOS 4.x Unix or the Slackware Linux distribution.