Other Tools to Consider

This might be a bit premature, but rootkit development also depends upon rootkit detection and prevention tools. Once you have a thorough understanding of these tools, you can design and develop rootkits that defeat these detection and prevention systems. Of course, the developers of these detection and prevention systems do not consider them to be tools at all; they are more likely considered to be “security applications,” but to the rootkit developer, they are simply tools. See Chapter 13, “Detecting Rootkits,” and Chapter 14, “Preventing Rootkits,” for these tools.