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bootkits

bootkits is the plural of bootkit.

Meaning of bootkit

Noun

bootkit (plural bootkits)

  1. (computer security) A rootkit which works by replacing the boot loader and patching the kernel before it starts executing.

Questions about bootkits

What is bootkits the plural of?
Bootkits is the plural of bootkit.

Words near bootkits in the dictionary

  1. bootjacking
  2. bootjacks
  3. bootkin
  4. bootkins
  5. bootkit
  6. bootkits
  7. bootlace
  8. bootlace fungi
  9. bootlace fungus
  10. bootlace tie
  11. bootlace ties

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bootkits (page history and authors); bootkit (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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