Usually means: Malware hiding its presence deeply.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. rootkit: Merriam-Webster
  2. rootkit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rootkit: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Rootkit, rootkit: Wordnik
  5. rootkit: Wiktionary
  6. Rootkit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. rootkit: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rootkit: Legal dictionary

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rootkit: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. rootkit: Hacking Lexicon
  4. Technopedia (No longer online)
  5. rootkit: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (rootkit)

noun:  (computer security) A set of software tools used by a third party to gain unauthorized access to a computer system and control the system while concealing itself from the user.
verb:  (transitive) To infect (a computer system) with a rootkit.

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