The Recent Mass infection is through a vector I really don’t understand, see as though you can legitimately download Windows 7 from Microsoft.
I guess people just prefer BitTorrent downloads to HTTP downloads, and whoever had this smart idea capitalized on that.
Microsoft should perhaps do something about that and put out a legitimate BitTorrent copy. I guess the problem is updates, once it’s out there and people are seeding it’s out there for good and it’s not necessarily the latest build.
A Trojan buried within counterfeit copies of Windows 7 RC was used to build a botnet of compromised PCs.
The tactic emerged after researchers from security firm Damballa shut down the command and control servers used to control the system, reckoned to have drafted thousands of Windows PCs into its compromised ranks.
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