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    MyDoom and Bagle rootkits surface

    Most people (we hope) are now safe from worms like MyDoom and Bagle, but new strains continue to be developed, the latest incorporating rootkits, which is troubling news.

    The rootkit technology, which The Register reports originally "featured only as a component of more sophisticated and exotic forms of malware," has now found its way into more mainstream malware.
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    good thing is its much much much harder to write a rootkit for vista. Problem is its also harder to make a virus scanner have hooks on everything. Rootkits aren't exactly new, they've been used in almost exactly the same manner since the virus scanners for NT first emerged as the malware uses them now (only now the malware is been malicous).
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