Thanks, Microsoft!
(Via Slashdot) There’s a new version of spyware coming to town, and it’ll be nearly invisible and practically impossible to get rid of. The “kernel rootkit” can modify the system kernel and intercept system calls. Here’s the kicker to the article in The Inquirer: #
...the only way to be sure that you have killed a kernel rootkit is to completely erase an infected hard drive and reinstall the operating system from scratch. ##

Saturday, February 19th, 2005 @ 11:12 pm