Rootkit May Be Behind Windows Blue Screen 323
L3sPau1 writes "A rootkit infection may be the cause of a Windows Blue Screen of Death issue experienced by Windows XP users who applied the latest round of Microsoft patches. It appears that the affected Windows PCs had the rootkit infection prior to deploying the Microsoft patches. Researcher Patrick W. Barnes, investigating the issue, has isolated the infection to the Windows atapi.sys file, a driver used by Windows to connect hard drives and other components. Barnes identified the infection as the Tdss-rootkit, which surfaced last November and has been spreading quickly, creating zombie machines for botnet activity."
Re:Sounds like a good thing (Score:2, Funny)
That's one way of forcing users to take care of an infection.
Let me try to respin it into an anti-Microsoft jab:
Windows API is such a jumbled mess of spaghetti code that not even low-level processes related to accessing the hard drive are safe from updates!
Inadequate regression testing (Score:5, Funny)
Next time you might consider doing some backwards compatibility testing with popular rootkits, yes? Just a free tip Microsoft!
Bug-for-bug compatible (Score:1, Funny)
Does this mean Microsoft is going to have to support and test malware and remain bug-for-bug compatible to avoid bad press in future? That'd be awesome... "we can't accept this fix, it's not compatible with the great zombie bot of '10".
Re:Inadequate regression testing (Score:5, Funny)
Next time you might consider doing some backwards compatibility testing with popular rootkits, yes? Just a free tip Microsoft!
But if we do, the makers of less-popular rootkits could sue us in EU for monopolistic preferential treatment! ~
"It's not a bug, it's a feature" (Score:3, Funny)
"Yes, our security update crashed your computer. We hope you enjoyed our anti-rootkit feature."
"Rootkit May Be Behind Windows Blue Screen" (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sounds like a good thing (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Sounds like a good thing (Score:3, Funny)
I sure am glad I have Vista!!!
I understand each of the words.
I can pronounce all the syllables.
Yet this string will not register in my brain...
It's as if this arrangement of characters should not be.
Like some great sacrilege has sprung into being.
Good way to lose users (Score:2, Funny)
Several weeks ago, I worked on a PC that was probably infected after doing a few Google Image Searches or browsing DeviantArt or something of that nature. I tried multiple virus/malware programs (AVG, Avast, Adaware, MalwareBytes, Spybot). I thought I got rid of the infection...then a Windows Update caused her computer to blue screen on boot.
My solution?
http://www.ubuntu.com/GetUbuntu/download [ubuntu.com]
Re:MOD PARENT UP (Score:3, Funny)
AC's don't get mod points! ;)
Re:Ah, well, that lets Microsoft off the hook then (Score:3, Funny)