The Alureon rootkit has become not just a major headache for its victims, with its insidious infection routines and persistence once on a machine. But it also has proved to be a challenge for ...

A week ago, Microsoft officials said they were removing one of the company's Windows patches from the Windows Update pipeline because of reports of blue-screening by some XP users after applying that ...

Pesky rootkit looks like it's getting refined for attacks. More secure features for Hotmail; Microsoft, Defense Dept. go on offense. Remember Alureon, the pesky rootkit, which hit the Windows ...

Microsoft just released its May Threat Report, and the results should give you pause. With nearly 2 million infected systems cleaned, the nefarious Alureon rootkit came out on top. Since it first ...

For the second month in a row, Microsoft has tried to eradicate a mutating rootkit that has blocked some Windows users from installing security updates. According to the Microsoft Malware Prevention ...

Microsoft on Thursday confirmed that the blue screen of death issues that affected a slew of users after the latest batch of Patch Tuesday updates is the result of an existing infection by the Alureon ...

In mid-February, Microsoft halted automatic distribution of one of its Windows patches, blaming the interaction of the patch with already-present malware on users' systems for a rash of blue-screen-of ...

Microsoft's Security Response Center has now confirmed that the Alureon rootkit (aka TDSS, aka Olmarik, aka Tidserv) is the root of the problem. "We were able to reach this conclusion after the ...

H8SRT (Known as Alureon in some places) drops the FakeCog Ransomware and at least one keylogger.<BR><BR>It is not a sophisticated rootkit and contains little in the way of self-defence, though it will ...

It turns out a rootkit is responsible for some Microsoft users experiencing the dreaded "blue screen of death" after applying one of the latest Windows patches, Microsoft said today. Post-Patch ...

Redmond announced today it has found the cause of reported rebooting problems after some Windows users installed a recent patch: The systems were infected with malware. Specifically, the Alureon ...

A new version of the malware that crippled Windows PCs last February sidesteps safeguards designed to block rootkits from hijacking machines running 64-bit editions of Windows, researchers said ...