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Malware Targets Shortcut Flaw In Windows, SCADA
tsu doh nimh writes "Anti-virus researchers have discovered a new strain of malicious software that spreads via USB drives and takes advantage of a previously unknown vulnerability in the way Microsoft Windows handles '.lnk' or shortcut files. Belarus-based VirusBlokAda discovered malware that includes rootkit functionality to hide the malware, and the rootkit drivers appear to be digitally signed by Realtek Semiconductor, a legitimate hi-tech company. In a further wrinkle, independent researcher Frank Boldewin found that the complexity and stealth of this malware may be due to the fact that it is targeting SCADA systems, or those designed for controlling large, complex and distributed control networks, such as those used at power and manufacturing plants. Meanwhile, Microsoft says it's investigating claims that this malware exploits a new vulnerability in Windows."
...for taking shortcuts.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
At least, unlike HP and Creative, they have yet to master the art of making crappy drivers larger than entire operating systems of just a few years ago...
They should avoid holding the USB drive that way.
Windows' reliability can only be expressed as an imaginary number?
Thanks, that explains a lot!
Better yet, if you have a 2 independent systems running at the same time mirroring eachother, the odds failure is the odds of both of them failing at the same time.
(1 - i)(1 - i)
Or 1 -2i + i^2
And the reliability is thus
1 - [1 -2i + i^2]
Which is 1 - 2i.
Get a pair of pairs...
1 - 4i^2 = 5.
Four Windows boxes and you've got a reliability of 500%!