Tue 4 Apr 2006
Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impossible
Tuesday, Apr 4th, 2006 at 9:38 amCategories: Malware; Microsoft
Posted by Administrator
How bad is the malware situation? Bad, and getting worse.
EWeek reports:
… a Microsoft security official said businesses should consider investing in an automated process to wipe hard drives and reinstall operating systems as a practical way to recover from malware infestation.
“When you are dealing with rootkits and some advanced spyware programs, the only solution is to rebuild from scratch. In some cases, there really is no way to recover without nuking the systems from orbit,” Mike Danseglio, program manager in the Security Solutions group at Microsoft, said in a presentation at the InfoSec World conference here.
Via Slashdot
I agree about wiping the hard drives, reinstalling from scratch; advocated for it years ago, when I made my living as a PC tech. It’s the only way to be sure … and even then I’m not sure we can be sure … I think.
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April 7th, 2006 at 5:46 am
wiping the drive may be expedient, but it’s not necessary, no matter what
microsoft thinks… perform a clean boot (using something like a BartPE disk or
even microsoft’s own WinPE disk) and the malware’s ability to hide itself goes
right out the window… if the kernel isn’t running, hooking the kernel won’t
help the malware hide…