In February, Microsoft was confronted with a wave of bugs through the application of a security patch for Windows XP. Many users complained of a reboot loop of their machine, and without apparent reason.
After investigation, Microsoft discovered that the original bug was nothing that Alureon a nice little rootkit installed on machines without the knowledge of users and causing extinction of recurrent PC after the patch KB977165 installed.
An unacceptable situation for the Redmond company, which, to overcome this problem, has announced that its next patch will incorporate a system for detecting rootkits. And in the case where the machine would host, the update would not be at. The user would be prompted to clean their computer before running the update.
An approach that could ultimately prove to be rather commendable for many people, the computer is probably invested rootkits without knowing it. These small programs have a tendency to settle in any discretion on its target, and allow a hacker to break into computers by stealth.
Nevertheless, in practice, the detection involves a scan of the machine forced to look for unwanted items. The price to pay to have an OS update?
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