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New rootkit uses old trick to hide itself - Yahoo News
by freakn at 1:40 pm EST, Jan 9, 2008

Over the past month, a new type of malicious software has emerged, using a decades-old technique to hide itself from antivirus software.

The malware, called Trojan.Mebroot by Symantec, installs itself on the [MBR], then makes changes to the Windows kernel, making it hard for security software to detect it.


 
 
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