13:50 Viruses are moving on the usbflash drive | |
| Anti-virus companies have reported a new trend in the spread of viruses. After a wave of e-mail and script viruses is now one of the most popular ways to spread malicious programs are USB-Stick. This was made possible thanks to the weakness of Windows, which by default will automatically launch the autorun.inf file from the removable drive. For the first time viruses that spread in this way (via INF / Autorun), have shown themselves in June 2007, when statistics ESET Software (developer of NOD32), their share rose to 2.17% of the total number of registered viruses. To date, that is just nine months, the number of viruses has increased to 10,3%. Among the most popular viruses in March 2008 includes generator popup Win32/Adware.Virtumonde (distributed via USB-sticks), which is very difficult to remove, as well as Mebroot, using the classic technique of recording in the MBR and store data in sectors hard disc, but not in the files, which complicates its detection, even when it modifies the registry Windows. According to some experts, the system INF / Autorun in Windows, you can be considered a major hole in the security of computer systems. In contrast to the shipment of infectious programs by e-mail here even literate user is almost unable to prevent infection, because simply insert the device into the connector USB - and the process is already irreversible. The only prevention is generally disable Autorun, which recommend doing even security experts from the company Microsoft. In general, in a sense, migration of viruses on USB-drives - a return to the origins of virus writing, when the Internet was not yet. Then the virus spread from computer to computer diskettes. | |
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