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MS warns of new security threat
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Name: IronMan
Date: February 17, 2005 at 19:12:25 Pacific
Subject: MS warns of new security threatOS: XP ProCPU/Ram: P4 512MB |
Comment:
Microsoft security researchers are warning about a new generation of powerful system monitoring programs, or "rootkits," that are almost impossible to detect using current security products and that could pose a serious risk to corporations and individuals.Full Story
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Response Number 2
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Name: Chunko
Date: February 17, 2005 at 22:47:19 Pacific
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Reply: always something.
I wonder what,if any thing,MS plans to do about these root kits with the next OS release.
Does this go for Linux as well?
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Response Number 3
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Name: BWelchel
Date: February 24, 2005 at 14:39:43 Pacific
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Reply: The description of the behavior of these rootkits and the documents returned from a "rootkit" search out on Google at least identify what I got!!! This is not just "the next thing," I fear! Untll we can isolate our systems, we are potential bait! I was stupid and picked this thing up when the firewall was off as I was DL'ing SP2! (I suspect a rootkit developer was
"sniffing" for somone doing the SP2
update and probably slipped a modified DLL in there! If these people can take this thing to the next level... We are dead -b
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