Alureon Rootkit Crash Your Windows PC (New Security Patch Crash)
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Microsoft in a press release on Wednesday inveterate that a rootkit caused Windows PCs to intrude after users practical a warrant repair patch update issued ending period.
Users may need to reinstall windows to fix the problem.
Only systems infected with the Alureon rootkit were incapacitated with Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD) errors that prevented booting, said Mike Reavey, the manager of the Microsoft Guard Activity Edifice (MSRC), in an declaration on the center's blog. "Our investigation has terminated that the resuscitate occurs because the system is pussy with malware," said Reavey.
He added that the MS10-015 update was not at crevice. "We eff not open calibre issues with guarantee update MS10-015," Reavey preserved.
Microsoft's occurrence that malware was to knock was not sudden. End hebdomad, the rootkit -- also called TDSS, Tidserv and TDL3 -- had been titled by warrant researchers as the prospective offender.
Within hours of the Jan. 9 achievement of MS10-015 and 12 different assets updates, users rumored that their computers wouldn't preserve. Two life afterward, Microsoft halted involuntary organisation of MS10-015 and launched an investigation, which revealed that malware power be the justification.
Yesterday, Reavey echoed worker researchers who originally had blamed an tact violate between MS10-015 and the rootkit for the debacle. "Malware writers adapted Windows activeness by attempting to operation a precise faculty position, instead of letting the operating grouping check the address," explained Reavey. "MS10-015 was downloaded and installed, during which the emplacement of Windows inscribe varied. On the succeeding reboot the malware encrypt crashed attempting to inclination a peculiar tact in Windows encrypt which was no human the witting OS function."
MS10-015 patterned a 17-year-old bug in the gist of all 32-bit versions of Windows.
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