Recently I spent some time rescuing my sister-in-law’s laptop from some seriously nasty malware. Even after running utilities like Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, then using UnHide to restore the system’s ...

Kaspersky TDSSKiller from Kaspersky Lab is a free utility that detects and removes rootkits and rootkit-like anomalies. The new version still offers the same streamlined, user-friendly interface, as ...

Back in February, the TDSS rootkit was hot news. Microsoft had issued a patch to Windows that caused some systems to blue screen at startup. The problem was traced to a rootkit that Microsoft called ...

Recently I spent some time rescuing my sister-in-law’s laptop from some seriously nasty malware. Even after running utilities like Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, then using UnHide to restore the system’s ...

The TDSS malware, which spreads via porn and bootleg Web sites, as well as video game and file storage services, has been in development since 2008, according to Kaspersky researcher Sergey Golovanov.

Criminals who operate large groupings of hacked PCs tend to be a secretive lot, and jealously guard their assets against hijacking by other crooks. But one of the world’s largest and most ...

Believed to have re-emerged in May of 2012, the "indestructible botnet" known as TDSS/TDL4 appears to be managing multiple versions of the malware across more than 250,000 infected victims worldwide.

As reported by fellow IT security vendor Prevx late last year, TDDS-3 comes from a 'dropper' that is spread by peer-to-peer networks or by crack and keygen websites. Infosecurity notes that the ...

Millions of PCs around the world appear to have been quietly infected by the dangerous TDSS ‘super-malware’ rootkit as part of a campaign to build a giant new botnet, researchers from security firm ...