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Getting Rid of MBR Rootkit’s (bootkit)

Yo everyone, for the past 2 months I’ve been seeing a major increase in MBR (sector 0) rootkits a.k.a bootkits.  While these may sound scary (something on sector zero of your hard drive….oh no’s) they’re really pretty easy to get rid of. Method 1 – Boot your computer from a Dr. Web Live CD and [...]

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How the TLD4 Rootkit Bypasses Driver Signing on Windows 64-bit

Per the Sunbelt Blog: Microsoft’s Windows operating system, running on a 64-bit machine provides enhanced security with driver signing of system and low level drivers. This policy, called the kernel mode code signing policy, disallows any unauthorized or malicious driver to be loaded [1]. The TDL4 rootkit bypasses driver signing policy on 64-bit machines by [...]

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