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rootkitting

rootkitting is the present participle and gerund of rootkit.

Meaning of rootkit

Verb

rootkit (third-person singular simple present rootkits, present participle rootkitting, simple past and past participle rootkitted)

  1. (transitive) To infect (a computer system) with a rootkit.
    • Given crackers' propensity for "rootkitting" systems — installing altered system binaries to facilitate future access — systematic integrity checks using message digest algorithms or one-way hash functions can be an important detection safeguard.2000, Seth T. Ross, UNIX system security tools

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Questions about rootkitting

What is rootkitting the present participle and gerund of?
Rootkitting is the present participle and gerund of rootkit.

Words near rootkitting in the dictionary

  1. rooting-tooting
  2. rootings
  3. rootkit
  4. rootkits
  5. rootkitted
  6. rootkitting
  7. rootle
  8. rootled
  9. rootles
  10. rootless
  11. rootless cosmopolitan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rootkitting (page history and authors); rootkit (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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