This story has been taken offline while we further investigate the nature of the attack.
This story has been taken offline while we further investigate the nature of the attack.
What media hype... Why not give us some more information as to what malware this is other than creating an unnecessary aura of panic -- This story makes this malware sound like its invisible and cannot be prevented. Please do some more research!
Is there a patch available for the vulnerability? If not, is there something users can do in the meantime to mitigate the risk of an infection? This sort of thing should be kept secret and reported to the vendor/s. Has that been done?
What is this media obsession with asking Joe Public for opinions? Frankly, this anonymous reader is about as credible as "my cousin's best friend" from the amount of information given here.
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Why try and contact Microsoft or Yahoo?
Unless the reader in question has a bit more information available than you are disclosing in the article (you have to admit it was rather vague...) they have no cause for concern unless it can be proven there is a new flaw or vulnerability that has been exploited. You are more likely to get a response from just about any well known security research organisation.
By the way, what piece of malware or spyware doesn't use the registry in some way to get itself installed and booted? Did the user take note of the registry entries or any other useful information?
You mention the reader removed the malware, I take that to mean that the person knew what they were doing and was able to identify the registry entries and deduce the type of variant ( or was it a totally new form of malware that he/she was able to reverse engineer and figure out all of the hooks, calls, threads etc?)