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August 1st, 2007
By Chad Perrin

Once you have security measures in place to protect you against unauthorized access to your computers and data, as well as the means to detect rootkits in case security is compromised despite your best efforts, you should have a plan ready for recovering in case the worst happens. Rootkit detection is a little different from one operating system platform to the next; whether you’re using Microsoft Windows XP or FreeBSD makes a difference for what tools you’ll use to detect rootkits.

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