Originally posted here by d0pp
That does nothing to hide the malicious software. All it does is prevent certain AV's and whatnot form detecting it.


The keys are still in plain sight.

Just use regedit like a good little hax0r.
The point is that you can't see them with regedit, and many tools bug out when viewing the overly long reg name.

What can and can't spot a malicious key:
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?date=2005-08-25

No reason for it not to show up in new malware...