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Most Sophisticated Rootkit Getting an Overhaul

Posted: 21 Oct 2011, 21:50
by dedanna1029
I am putting this here in the Win section, to show just how damaging Windows is and can be.

jfruhlinger wrote:"TDL4, a rootkit that helps build a powerful botnet, is pegged by security vendor ESET as one of the most sophisticated pieces of malware in the world. But its creators aren't resting on their laurels; they're rewriting some of the code from the ground up to make it difficult for antimalware to detect it, creating a hidden boot partition that guarantees malware code will be loaded even before the operating system is. It's part of a plan to turn TDL4 into a turnkey product that can be sold to other criminal operations."

http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/2 ... n-Overhaul

Re: Most Sophisticated Rootkit Getting an Overhaul

Posted: 21 Oct 2011, 22:45
by viking60
Hmm that thing is infecting MBR. That might be the reason for the Win8 hardware certification thing,

Re: Most Sophisticated Rootkit Getting an Overhaul

Posted: 22 Oct 2011, 18:17
by dedanna1029
Aye. That's what I was thinking, too.