Stealth Rootkits Are Bombarding XP SP2 PC’s
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Did you know that more than 20 percent of all malware removed from Windows XP SP2 (Service Pack 2) systems are stealth rootkits? We suggest that you run your spyware/malware removal utility now after making sure it’s been updated! Clean computing is fun computing.
Jason Garms, architect and group program manager in Microsoft’s Anti-Malware Technology Team, said the open-source FU rootkit ranks high on the list of malicious software programs deleted by the free Windows worm zapping utility. “I can tell you that FU is the fifth most removed piece of malware. We’re finding the FU rootkit in many different versions of Rbot,” Garms said, referring to the IRC controlled backdoor used to illegally infect Windows PCs with spyware.
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