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Conceal vs Rootkit - What's the difference?

conceal | rootkit |

As verbs the difference between conceal and rootkit

is that conceal is (lb) to hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret while rootkit is to infect (a computer system) with a rootkit.

As a noun rootkit is

(computing) a set of software tools used by a third party after gaining access to a computer system in order to conceal the altering of files, or processes being executed by the third party without the user's knowledge.

conceal

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (lb) To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.
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  • *:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed .
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    rootkit

    English

    Alternative forms

    * root kit

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) A set of software tools used by a third party after gaining access to a computer system in order to conceal the altering of files, or processes being executed by the third party without the user's knowledge.
  • Verb

    (rootkitt)
  • To infect (a computer system) with a rootkit.
  • * 2000 , Seth T. Ross, UNIX system security tools
  • Given crackers' propensity for "rootkitting" systems — installing altered system binaries to facilitate future access — systematic integrity checks using message digest algorithms or one-way hash functions can be an important detection safeguard.
  • * 2006 , Ed Skoudis, Tom Liston, Counter hack reloaded
  • If not, your system might have been rootkitted .

    See also

    * backdoor * trojan * virus * worm