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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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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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