Execute vs Rootkit - What's the difference?
execute | rootkit |
To kill as punishment for capital crimes.
To carry out; to put into effect.
* Milton
To perform.
To cause to become legally valid; as, to execute a contract.
(computing) To start, launch or run; as, to execute a program.
(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.
To infect (a computer system) with a rootkit.
* 2000 , Seth T. Ross, UNIX system security tools
* 2006 , Ed Skoudis, Tom Liston, Counter hack reloaded
As verbs the difference between execute and rootkit
is that execute is to kill as punishment for capital crimes 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.execute
English
Verb
(execut)- There are certain states where it is lawful to execute prisoners convicted of certain crimes.
- Your orders have been executed , sir!
- I'll execute your orders as soon as this meeting is adjourned.
- Why delays / His hand to execute what his decree / Fixed on this day?
- to execute a difficult piece of music brilliantly
- to execute a turn in ballet
Synonyms
* (computing) start, launch, run, openrootkit
English
Alternative forms
* root kitNoun
(en noun)Verb
(rootkitt)- 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.
- If not, your system might have been rootkitted .
