2/25/2023 0 Comments Avast rootkit removal tool![]() ![]() In the lecture he gave upon receiving the Turing award in 1983, Ken Thompson of Bell Labs, one of the creators of Unix, theorized about subverting the C compiler in a Unix distribution and discussed the exploit. Lane Davis and Steven Dake wrote the earliest known rootkit in 1990 for Sun Microsystems' SunOS UNIX operating system. ![]() These first-generation rootkits were trivial to detect by using tools such as Tripwire that had not been compromised to access the same information. If an intruder could replace the standard administrative tools on a system with a rootkit, the intruder could obtain root access over the system whilst simultaneously concealing these activities from the legitimate system administrator. The term rootkit or root kit originally referred to a maliciously modified set of administrative tools for a Unix-likeoperating system that granted 'root' access. ![]()
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