For the second month in a row, Microsoft has tried to eradicate a mutating rootkit that has blocked some Windows users from installing security updates. According to the Microsoft Malware Prevention ...

The Alureon rootkit has become not just a major headache for its victims, with its insidious infection routines and persistence once on a machine. But it also has proved to be a challenge for ...

A week ago, Microsoft officials said they were removing one of the company's Windows patches from the Windows Update pipeline because of reports of blue-screening by some XP users after applying that ...

In mid-February, Microsoft halted automatic distribution of one of its Windows patches, blaming the interaction of the patch with already-present malware on users' systems for a rash of blue-screen-of ...

Pesky rootkit looks like it's getting refined for attacks. More secure features for Hotmail; Microsoft, Defense Dept. go on offense. Remember Alureon, the pesky rootkit, which hit the Windows ...

H8SRT (Known as Alureon in some places) drops the FakeCog Ransomware and at least one keylogger.<BR><BR>It is not a sophisticated rootkit and contains little in the way of self-defence, though it will ...