spyware and rootkits

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J A M E S B U T L E R A N D S H E R R I S PA R K S
spyware and
rootkits
THE FUTUR E CONVERGENCE
Jamie Butler is the director of engineering at HBGary,
Inc. and is co-author of the upcoming book Rootkits:
The Day After. He is also a frequent speaker at computer
security conferences, presenting his research on
kernel reverse engineering, host-based intrusion prevention,
and rootkits.
james.butler@hbgary.com
Sherri Sparks is a Ph.D. student of Computer Science
at the University of Central Florida. Her current
research interests are in software security, reverse
engineering, and intrusion detection.
ssparks@longwood.cs.ucf.edu
A L L O F A S U DDEN YOUR P E N TIUM 4 ,
3.2GHz desktop with 3GB of memory takes
half an hour to boot into Windows.What’s
more, you can’t seem to open Internet
Explorer without being escorted to a home
page you’d rather die than let your mother
see. Of course, that is to say nothing of the
unsolicited pop-up advertisements bombarding
you at every click. And if all of that
wasn’t indication enough, you know there’s
a problem…