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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Blunden, Bill, 1969-
Rootkit arsenal : escape and evasion in the dark corners of the system / Bill Blunden. -- 2nd ed.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-1-4496-2636-5 (pbk.) -- ISBN 1-4496-2636-X (pbk.) 1. Rootkits (Computer software) 2. Computers--Access control. 3. Computer viruses. 4. Computer hackers. I. Title.
QA76.9.A25B585 2012
005.8--dc23
2011045666
6048
Printed in the United States of America
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