Why do you misuse the word rootkits for what are actually (insert stealthkits, invisiware, chinese gongs here)?
We don’t like this supposed purist argument and have had numerous debates with well informed people about what to actually call this class of malware. Our take on the whole thing is that the popular usage of words defines their meaning, if the world refers to this class of software as rootkits, then rootkits they are. To quote the PacketStorm T-shirt – “Evolve or die”. Our advice to the ‘purists’ is that their time would be better spent putting research and code into the community than quibbling over etymology.
