The Rise of the Rootkits

[Dr. Zhivago]

This is bad news....

Malware researchers at Prevx have highlighted what they are calling a 'massive growth' in the number of PCs harboring rootkit infections.

More than 725,000 PCs were scanned using the Prevx CSI malware scanner over a two-month period. Of the around 291,000 users who scanned their PCs during October 2007, some form of spyware or malware was found on one in six.

Significantly, although rootkits were detected on 15.6% of PCs during October 2007, that figure had risen to 22% by early December.

According to Prevx's Jacques Erasmus: "The rise of the rootkits has begun."

Source: it business.ca

[tranCendenZ]

Thanks again Sony, looking forward to the perfecting of this technology on Blu-Ray's BD+ Advance Countermeasure

[gamefoo21]

Thanks again Sony, looking forward to the perfecting of this technology on Blu-Ray's BD+ Advance Countermeasure

Whoa... Can't give Boo-Way the props... You have to shift the spotlight to Sony test running self installing rootkits with music CD's.

[daPhoenix]

Note that this magnificient software detects one of Company of Heroes patches as malware - sigh, which means "quite a few people" have been wrongly tagged as having malware.

Also it calls home more than ET because you can't even scan a machine without an online connection - unless you pay a ton of money. F-Secure Blacklight does the same for free, without a net connection.

[Dwarden]

yep PrevX even v2 get's tons of false positives ...

anyway daPhoenix the thing with traffic is that it sends binaries headers and hashes and compare with online database ...

while BlackLight got nothing so fast updated

anyone with paranoia, you are welcome to plugoff internet or use sniffer to check packets

[tranCendenZ]

Whoa... Can't give Boo-Way the props... You have to shift the spotlight to Sony test running self installing rootkits with music CD's.

Sure, that started it. But BD+ Advanced Countermeasure is the "next-gen" rootkit!