Mikko Hypponen
Mikko Hypponen
Mikko Hermanni Hyppönenis a computer security expert and columnist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
CountryUnited States of America
realizing trojans company
It's more than unsettling to realize there are large companies out there developing backdoors, exploits and trojans.
privacy internet discussion
Privacy is implied. Privacy is not up for discussion.
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The latest variants of Bozori even remove competing viruses like Zotob from the infected machines.
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This is nasty, as this is done on all mounted drives, ie. any drive that has a drive letter. So it might affect your USB thumb drives, external hard drives and network drives. Also, if you're taking daily automatic backups, you might end up backing up the corrupted files over good files.