Ouch! Be careful, no be VERY careful out there. This is the first time I have seen anything like this, but then I have wondered for years now why the authors of these nasty viruses, trojans, worms, and rogue programs don't do more damage than they do. I have seen many of them that could erase all of your data, for example, but thankfully they don't.
This one, well this is something completely different.
"Computerworld - Microsoft is telling Windows users that they'll have to reinstall the operating system if they get infected with a new rootkit that hides in the machine's boot sector.
A new variant of a Trojan Microsoft calls "Popureb" digs so deeply into the system that the only way to eradicate it is to return Windows to its out-of-the-box configuration, Chun Feng, an engineer with the Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC), said last week on the group's
blog.
"If your system does get infected with Trojan:Win32/Popureb.E, we advise you to fix the MBR and then use a recovery CD to restore your system to a pre-infected state," said Feng.
A recovery disc returns Windows to its factory settings."
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