Hackers Serving Rootkits with Bagles

Iran Contra writes "Security researchers at F-Secure in Finland have discovered a rootkit component in the Bagle worm that loads a kernel-mode driver to hide the processes and registry keys of itself and other Bagle-related malware from security scanners. Bagle started out as a simple e-mail borne executable and the addition of rootkit capabilities show how far ahead of the cat-and-mouse game the attackers are."

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[popo]

Mac users typically know very little about windows or linux, and yet they still claim they use the "best" operating system?

The Mac equation is a minimal set of software options and guaranteed interoperability. Its idiot proof. That's what people like about it.

Its also IMHO what sucks about it.

I have a mac, I have a pc and I have an okay linux box.

The mac is for sure the sexiest, but its option poor. Mac users feel free to flame away, but if you can't back it up with a logical comparison, then you've only furthered my point.

I've never met these Nazis of yours?

[a.d.trick]

1. I definitly don't ignore flaws in GNU/Linux software, I run promptly off and patch them. As for Windows flaws, I find them quite interesting because they're usually not just a regular typo kind of flaw but something more deep in the archetecture, they kind that I want to learn to avoid as a budding computer programmer. Plus I'm a Windows sysadmin and so these will quite possibly affect me personally

2. I've actually never yelled anything on slashdot ( by yelling, I'm assuming you mean typing with caps on)

3. I have one penis, that is enough. Thank you.

4. I don't hate windows, it's more of a strong distaste, like the feeling I have for asparagus. Also, you'll never see me spending money on windows emulation software. I've played with Wine to get IE to work in Linux, but that is because I'm a web developer and I need to test stuff, not because I enjoy that travesty.

5. I'm not quite sure what this means, but I have it on good authority that several large bussinesses use it on there desktops. Nasa is one example, Ibm is moving there, and I think European companies have a dispropotionatly large number of deployments.

6. I don't know any linux user who would be ashamed that people don't know what linux is. It's a bug, but were working on it. https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/1

7. Somebody else alreay spoke to this.

8. Are kids masochists for playing with Legos for hours on ends? I do this because I enjoy it. If you don't there are many distros that do not require that sort of thing.

9. Funny, I saw an artical in newsforge about a professional publisher that used about half linux, half windows.

10. I know nothing about video editing, don't really care either.

11. Depends on what you mean. For the 'gamer' types (you know who you are) that is true. It's the main reason I still have a copy of windows. For most people I don't think that's too much of an issue. As for educational software, there's plenty for Linux.

12. I actually find this more true of windows users that linux users.

13. These lunatics are probably smarter than you or I will ever be. And I don't think any one where has a problem with clicking. It's just really inefficient for some tasks.

14. Yes, and your statement was incredibly factual. Pot, meet kettle.

15. I'm deeply confused what 'gentoo', 'lgx', and 'rpm' have to do with tenageers.

16. I'm actually quite happy with win32codecs.

17. No I'm starting to think your post should have been modded funny.

18. I'm not much of an office user, but OpenOffice works quite fine for me. I love the pdf export option, and it's equation writting capabilities suit me well as a math student. Sure it has a few issues, but I like it better than MS Office.

19. I've never had problems with recording in Gnome. It's increadiby easy too.

20. I have a CD-RW, DVD R/RW and it can read and write both CDs and DVD fine in linux.

21. I didn't need any 3rd party software to use X. To get good graphic accelleration I needed the non-free fglrx driver. But the same would be true in Windows.

22. I'm not a usenet user. But I do find emails from Outlook users with their tiny blue fonts annoying so I can sympatise.

23. Did I miss something? What happened to IBM, Redhat, Novel, HP, and several other large companies.

24. Thats fine with me. I'll continue to give my money to the companies that stay.

25. I'm not an authourity on the issue. But I've heard that the Windows one would be better off to be non-existant too.

26. I've set up Windows about 150 times now. It takes about 3-5 hours to get the computer into a state were it is ready to use. (this includes patching, and installing important software like a real web browser, office software, a firewall, AV, etc). An Ubuntu install is about 1 hour.

27. All my usb stuff Just Works(tm). Same with my brother's, and anyone else I've seen.

28. I used linux before I knew s

Re:How to tell if you are a linux fanatic.

[DaEMoN128]

1. I dont dance.
2. I only yell troll when they are unsubstantiated "facts"
3. I have all the support I need. I can even buy commercial support if I dont. I also have to option to have Dell, or IBM support any system they ship with Linux installed. Thats as much as they do for windows as well.
4. I dont emulate, I run a dedicated win2k server almost once a month to do menial tasks.
5. concede, unless you want to count pixar, dreamworks, and countless other rendering studios that use maya on redhat while using xserves.
6. concede
7. Mac and linux both use cups. It isn't that difficult to trasnfer drivers. try again.
8. I dont look at scripts. Never had to, all of my hardware works just as is (granted I only do basic stuff, dvd burning (no ripping, see #4), dvd erasing, watching movies, listem to music, surf the net.
9. I believe Jon "Maddog" hall would disagree. All of his books are done with TeX or LaTeX.
10. see #5. I dont know about live action, its not my area of interest. From what I hear, MAC is the way to go for that.
11. My idea of a riviting game is frozen bubble. But I concede on games only for this point. I contest the rest of #11.
12. I have no problems understanding windows, Im just to cheap to buy it.
13. Havent used KDE, CDE, or Gnome lately have you.
14. pure bull intended to incite fury.
15. troubled teenages, no.... then theyd be pns, psy, or other such diatribe. just shows a penchant for unintelligable acronyms.
16. I have had no problems playing wmv's. also, I have a win2k system.
17. access is a front end. the database is sql. We have db2, MySql, PostgreSQL, oracle. We dont have a pretty front end, we only have serious databases. You can do everything from pure sql on the database server that Access installs and uses without ever opening up the access application.
18. I personally have no need to pay 400 for a wordprocessor. Openoffice, wordperfect, dos editor work for my purposes. I have never needed to use vb script.
19. NeroLinux is ok, I like K3b. Both will do DVD-/+RW DL.
20. I dont know about dvd-ram. How popular is that format? see #19.
21. All of Linux, except the Kernel is 3rd party. dont see why that is bad as long as it is a quality offering. Why does 3rd party even matter when quality should be the main judging point?
22. I have yet to peronsaly kill a file domain, and I will call BS when I see it, regardless of OS it was typed on.
23. Almost non-existant, only Novell, Red-hat, and IBM will support most anybody. Dell will support theyre customers. I believe there are others as well, does connical offer support?
24. Companies are switch both directions. Many are leaving Windows because of virus problems, others are leaving linux because of dependancy hell. This statement chose to ignore one side of the arguement in order to make an arguement. This was pure bias.
25. Terminal service. That is microsofts name for VNC. Please check again for VNC options in Linux. I know X.org has a client. OpenVNC is another option. Please research your fud before you spout it. OpenVNC is compatible with windows terminal server I believe.
26. Setting up servers is quicker, but I have never had a windows install take a couple of minutes. My fastest OS install was a very minimal linux install. Point is basically substatiated, but misleading at the same time.
27. Have you ran a modern linux distro. I have had no problems using my usb minidisk drive as a removable hd, my usb hd's, my thumbdrives, my usb burners, usb modems, usb nics, and I only have usb printers. Not a problem since Kernel 2.6 came out.
28. Anyone is a moron if they take slashdot as gospel. Always do your own research.
29. attack the site when you cannot attack the os? you are sinking to the level of those you are flaming.
30. Strongly disagree. My sister has no clue, but is running linux (I set it up and taught her how to use the net).
31. Linux can crash. Just run anything from ATI. Windows still crashes too