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Rootkits have been making the news with increasing frequency recently and I expect this trend will continue. eWeek recently quoted Microsoft’s Anti-Malware Technology Team leader Jason Garms as saying more than 20 percent of malware removed from systems running Windows XP with Service Pack 2 are rootkits. That’s right — rootkits are installed even with SP2.