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Two malware programs help each other stay on computers |
July 01, 2013
Two malicious software programs that help each other stay on computers are proving difficult to remove.The programs work together by alternately downloading slighter different variations of the other in an attempt to evade antivirus software, wrote Hyun Choi of Microsoft's Malware Protection Center, on Sunday.One of the malware programs, called Vobfus, was detected in September 2009. It is known as a downloader, or a program that downloads other pieces of code.Once Vobfus infects a computer, it downloads from a remote command-and-control server a program called Beebone, which is another kind of downloader that installs other malicious programs on a computer. The two work together, downloading variants of the other that are not immediately detected by antivirus products, Choi wrote.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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