New Malware Simulates Hard Drive Failure 294
An anonymous reader writes "A nasty strain of malware goes beyond mere sensational alerts, it makes it seem the user's hard drive is failing. It moves files from All Users and the current Windows user's profile into a temporary location, making it appear as though problems with the hard drive are causing files to disappear. It also disables a user's ability to change wallpaper images and sets registry keys to hide certain icons — giving the impression that programs are going missing as well. Of course, it's all done in an attempt to get people to buy the software that will fix it."
Re:The Game of Catchup (Score:1, Interesting)
You tell people two simple things. Click the update button when the updates happen
How do you think that will work out? The bad guys will just craft their website to look like an update and the user will stupidly run it just like before.
Re:Hey buddy! (Score:4, Interesting)
Actually I think the word you both are looking for is "straw man."
Re:The Game of Catchup (Score:4, Interesting)
Which drivers?
Name some specifics you troll.
Also 1 in 14 downloads on windows is malware, that is sure going to be breaking machines more than every 6 months.
Windows will be usable when it has lsof, can replace in use files, and in general starts acting like a multi-user OS.