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Hackers Serving Rootkits with Bagles

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the worm-in-the-apple dept.

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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  1. I've never met these Nazis of yours? by a.d.trick · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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