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Windows Rootkit Requires Reinstall?

29

Jun

2011

In a ComputerWorld article Gregg Kaiser cites a Microsoft engineer as saying that the trojan that Microsoft calls “Popureb” digs so deeply that the only way to eradicate it is to reinstall the operating system.If you read the Microsoft blog Feng didn’t actually say that this is the only way to eradicate the trojan. In […]

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MBR Confusion

29

Jun

2011

Our friends at Microsoft recently blogged about a new variant of a bootkit Trojan from the family they call Popureb. The variant, Win32/Popureb.E, introduced a driver component to prevent a malicious master boot record (MBR) and other malicious components from being cleaned. At least one tech writer was quick to pick up on the implications […]

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Don’t write it, read it instead!

22

Jun

2011

The bootkit malware Trojan:Win32/Popureb.E has made some changes in its code compared to previous samples (specifically, Trojan:Win32/Popureb.B), and now it introduces a driver component to prevent the malicious MBR and other malicious data stored as disk sectors from being changed. The driver component protects the data in an unusual way – by hooking the DriverStartIo […]

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