Enterprise software vendors beware. If you have included rootkit-like technology in your products, now is the time to step forward, publicly own up to it, and get rid of it right away. Otherwise some enterprising hacker is going to do it for you.

Cases in point are the programmer Mark Russinovich and the research team at software vendor F-Secure. They are prowling the hidden paths of commercial products in search of rootkits. Both were involved in breaking the story on the Sony rootkit, and both have added Symantec’s Norton SystemWorks to the roster of products with rootkit-like technology built in by the vendor.

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