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Spyware programs have begun borrowing techniques from another very malicious  type of program, known as a "rootkit."  Rootkits give remote attackers administrative access to machines that they manage to infect. With a rootkit, attackers can peruse compromised machines' hard drive's, set up or change user accounts, add, delete, or modify files, and communicate with other machines on a network or the Internet.

Cool Web Search, a very prolific spyware application. has some rootkit features that allow the its authors to hide their program files on Windows systems.

Read the full story at eWeek.