Comments on: Dangerous rootkit collecting data on rise

By: confused....

confused.... — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:45:12 +0000

Microsoft Explorer ??? the explorer.exe or the internet explorer ??

By: DaDuDe

DaDuDe — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:05:22 +0000

Too many flaws in MS software…

@42

Yeah right!

By: tucker

tucker — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:39:24 +0000

stupid Europeans. them Russians can’t touch us Americans.

By: sober

sober — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:21:46 +0000

I was rooted back in 2006 and let me tell you, it wasn’t a pleasant experience, my whole pc went loony. Looks like it’s time to put that pcbsd install to use and learn unix.

By: hikaricore

hikaricore — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:31:13 +0000

Umm… root kits existed long before sony.

But good attempt.

By: al bundy

al bundy — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:40:35 +0000

Thanks Sony for fuking the world with your rootkit idea. anyway, if you need to find a rootkit, use this from MS:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897445.aspx

By: will

will — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:15:49 +0000

Russians and Armenians… wow they will do anything to get your bank account info.

they bring shame to me :/

since i am one

By: Atlas

Atlas — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:13:52 +0000

all browsers have absolutely critical flaws, many of which have been open for YEARS because coding against them means mas$ive rewrites of code (ie6 is especially bad, and more than half of all ie versions are 6). Yes, you need Linux. It is not true that the only reason linux is more secure is because it is less popular(not popular on the desktop for consumer use, extremely popular with big corps, gov agencies world wide, etc), it is because windows uses a sh*tty access model whereas *nix like environments uses a tried and true kernel system… and many hardcore agencies build excellent software/mods to make linux pretty bomb proof… such as the NSA’s SELinux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SELinux (which is complete security overkill if you have used it you would know).
Get linux.
ubuntu.com
fedoraproject.org
knoppix.org

By: hikaricore

hikaricore — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:25:56 +0000

Moshster: Stupidest argument I have ever read. Your fantastic Microsoft loves to hide and deny security issues and wait 6 months to release them as one big patch, making it look like there are fewer issues than there really are. Security issues on Linux as a whole are low, issues with single software applications do occur from time to time but are usually fixed in under a week. I’d love to know where you get your info from besides right out of your as$ to make such ignorant claims.

By: Duska

Duska — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:56:01 +0000

again, about time to nuke russia

By: realchard

realchard — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:27:09 +0000

dam something else to worry about!

By: PUA

PUA — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:23:13 +0000

I’m glad i’m not in Europe, haha

By: GeeS

GeeS — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:43:00 +0000

Thnx Wah. I’ll surely check it out.

By: Wah

Wah — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:00:14 +0000

bad link

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897445.aspx#top

By: Wah

Wah — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:59:16 +0000

@28 Gees
as long as that program’s up-to-date. Usually they either release periodic updates/patches/lists/databases to keep up to date ASAP. If you’re worried then check out: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897445.aspx. More current info on rootkits and resources on how to deal with all sorts.