Chapter 5 Tools of the Trade
Rootkits lie at the intersection of several related disciplines: security, computer forensics, reverse engineering, system internals, and device drivers. Thus, the tools used to develop and test rootkits run the gamut. In this section, I’m more interested in telling you why you might want to have certain tools, as opposed to explaining how to install them. With the exception of the Windows debugging tools, most tools are of the next–next–finished variety; which is to say that the default installation is relatively self-evident and requires only that you keep pressing the “Next” button.
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