A recent study by RIPE (the European Internet Registry for IP addresses) has warned that by 2011 the current version of IP addresses (IPv4) will be depleted, thus it urged all professional bodies and organizations dealing with the Internet to actively adopt and support the new IPv6 address version. IPv6 addresses are 128 bits long-much [...]
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The term rootkit is used to describe the mechanisms and techniques where malicious programs, including viruses, spyware and trojans, try to hide from antivirus and antispyware programs. There are various categories of rootkits depending on whether the malicious program continues to exist after restarting the computer and whether the rootkit program operates at the user or kernel level. [...]
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