Just a thread for myself... don't mind me...

Alureon is a trojan and rootkit which is designed to steal data by intercepting a system's network traffic and searching it for usernames, passwords and credit card data. Microsoft has confirmed that Alureon is the cause of a series of Blue Screen of Death problems on Microsoft Windows systems which were triggered by Patch Tuesday update MS10-015. Microsoft will not install the patch on these systems. The Alureon rootkit was first seen in 2006. PCs usually get infected by manually downloading files, but it has been seen bundled with Internet Security 2010 as a drive by download. When the dropper is executed, it first hijacks spoolsv.exe to write a filesystem at the end of the disk, then it infects low level drivers such as atapi.sys. Alureon has also been known to redirect search engines to commit click fraud.

In November 2010, the press reported that the rootkit has evolved to the point that it is able to bypass the driver signing requirement of 64-bit editions of Windows 7 by subverting the master boot record.



Just some info I'm going to need in class tomorrow... and Office won't let me do anything.

Sounds like a personal problem.

yay homework