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Rootkit May Be Behind Windows Blue Screen

Posted by kdawson on from the pre-owned dept.

L3sPau1 writes "A rootkit infection may be the cause of a Windows Blue Screen of Death issue experienced by Windows XP users who applied the latest round of Microsoft patches. It appears that the affected Windows PCs had the rootkit infection prior to deploying the Microsoft patches. Researcher Patrick W. Barnes, investigating the issue, has isolated the infection to the Windows atapi.sys file, a driver used by Windows to connect hard drives and other components. Barnes identified the infection as the Tdss-rootkit, which surfaced last November and has been spreading quickly, creating zombie machines for botnet activity."

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  1. Re:Ah, well, that lets Microsoft off the hook then by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Where did you get that they develop lots of their development to DRM regime?
    Or did you pull that stat out of your ass, for all you know they probably have one guy working on it and not even full time

    Anyways if Linux development put half their effort into making a decent desktop and find a standard than they would be a better place. Pot of gold, ahhh fuck it...

  2. I'm in favor of requiring Internet User's License by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If you need a license to operate a vehicle, why not an internet-connected device, which has the ability to wreak havoc and cost millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars in lost productivity, ID theft, etc. if compromised? I'll leave the details of the implementation up to people like Obama who have supreme confidence in mouth-breathing bureaucrats to correctly implement his vision for grandiose programs. Hey, it worked for health care, right? Right???

  3. Re:Sounds like a good thing by gcerullo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Hang on, let me fix that for you.

    I sure am glad I have Mac OS X.