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Thursday, November 10, 2005
Trojans Using Sony Rootkit
Those dumbasses at Sony can thank themselves now that the first and second Trojans have been found in the wild - both Trojans use the oft mentioned Rootkit to hide themselves - the exact thing that Sony claimed would not happen. The details from F-Secure are here: http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/breplibot_c.shtml. This is a good time to remind you to make sure you have the usual precautions in place: updated anti-virus, organized firewall(s) and some common sense.
Posted by Matthew Carrick at 4:49.03 PM EST | Permanent Link
| Categories: Best Practices, Security Alerts, Virus-Trojan-Worm Alerts
| Categories: Best Practices, Security Alerts, Virus-Trojan-Worm Alerts