Boot kit
A boot kit is a collection of software tools or boot loaders that is installed on the compromised system after a computer system has been broken into, in order to deactivate further security mechanisms of the operating system.
A bootkit is therefore a mixture of boot sector viruses and rootkits . The approach states that those who already have the hardware under their control can also have the software under their control. An effective safeguard against the execution of unsigned program code can only be achieved with the use of TPM hardware.
In the past there have been bootkit attacks e.g. B. for the operating system Vista and the NAC solution from Cisco .
The company Kaspersky Lab described boot kits as the 2008 challenge in the area of malware .