Parasites have evolved. More than 20 percent of malware use rootkits
Wednesday, December 7th, 2005
Recently, Jason Garms, architect and group program manager in Microsoft’s security unit, gave an interview to Ziff Davis Internet News. In this interview he said that according to usage statistics culled from Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool, more than 20 percent of all infected computers running Windows XP Service Pack 2 were compromised by numerous rootkits and complex parasites, which were using rootkit techniques to conceal their malicious activity and presence in the system. Jason Garms named the most widely spread threats of such kind (FU, WinNT/Ispro, HackDef) and noted that they are often bundled with illegally installed worms, backdoors, remote administration tools, spyware and even adware parasites. More...
