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What are Toolkits and what defences are available?

by teejaybird Feb 16, 2006 7:16PM PST

Maybe this has been discussed before now but I have recently come across something called Toolkits. These appear to be very nasty things. I did a brief search of Microsoft's site but came up with nothing. Other searches have only produced very technical and to me, incomprehensible articles. It seems that these are the nastier than viruses or regular spyware and are sometimes totally invisible. Am I paranoid or do we really have soemthing to fear in terms of deeply hidden lurkers in our computers?
Teejay

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by woodchipted Feb 18, 2006 11:54PM PST

I think you are refering to Rootkits, but if you are not, then this is another problem that seems to have arisen.
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