With all the hoopla that seems to be heaped upon each and every new Storm\Nuwar\Peacomm\Peed\Zhelatin worm I thought I'd make a quick little template for these alerts so security people could make posting said alerts a little bit easier.
Mind you, I may not give too much attention to this because it's the easiest thing to avoid. Just don't open any unknown\odd\unusual\ emails! Plain as that. If you do, then you deserve what you get. Yea, it's harsh....get over it.
See my post here
Within the world of malware there are a couple of infections which seem to develop new variants very quickly. The type which seem to be the fastest, with new variants uncovered daily are of the 'bot' variety. These include but are not limited to backdoors, proxies, password stealers, downloaders\droppers and spambots.
Their names can strike fear in the hearts and minds of IT professionals all across the world not to mention make a home user nearly passout. Hacker Defender, InfoStealer, Rustock are but to name a few.
These can in many cases be cleaned up, tho to be honest, wiping the drive and reformatting to reinstall Windows is probably the best advice. If you have one of these then you'll be needing to use a specialized tool called SDFix, by Andy Manchesta.
Do not attempt to clean any bots on your own. These can require some specific registry fixes even before you begin cleaning, not to mention many bots are coded to prevent running of removal tools. Instead first install and run HijackThis! and post the resultant log into my Countermeasures: Extraction Hlep forum and I'll assist in removal.
I've just updated a couple of threads in our Latest Malware Threats Forum. I updated the SmitFraud post to show links to changelogs and tools and added one for SDFix, a bot detection and removal tool.
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