NOW READ THIS
("Security Advisory")
Submitted by: Bill Hickey
NCVA List Master
NRT-0353 Rootkit Infections Prevalent:
A survey by internet security vendor Prevx finds that quite a few PCs are
infected with rootkits. Prevx has a free scanner called Prevx CSI that
looks for rootkit infections and, after just a few weeks of testing, the
results were not pretty. Of the 291,000 users who downloaded Prevx CSI
since October, one in six found some kind of infection. What makes rootkits
so difficult to deal with is they often take control of the operating system,
so they can disable an antivirus or security program and are usually used to
hide the real malicious code.
(internetnews.com 17DEC07)