Security vendors Symantec Corp. and Kaspersky Lab Ltd. admit they have shipped software that hides information from system tools. Security expert says there is “no good justification” for the use of such techniques. Both companies disagreed with the term rootkit, saying their software was not designed with malicious intent. Both vendors appeared sensitive to Mark Russinovichs criticism of the technique, which was used by Sony BMG Music Entertainment last year is now criticizing security vendors. The term is usually reserved for the techniques used by malicious software to avoid detection on an infected PC.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2120042/symantec–kaspersky-criticized-for-cloaking-software.html