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rootkit
/rootkit/ , n. [very common] A kit for maintaining root ; an automated
cracking tool. What script kiddies use. After a cracker has first broken in
and gained root access, he or she will install modified binaries such as a
modified version login with a backdoor, or a version of ps that will not
report the cracker's processes). This is a rootkit.