From what I know, XP Antivirus gets installed when you go to a malicious website (myspace, anyone???) with an ad asking if you want to run it (don't remember their exact wording, but they dupe you into thinking you have something). When you click on it, things get run and the application gets installed on your hard drive. I am a computer tech and we have been dealing with this virus almost non-stop on customer computers for about the last 3 weeks... It's a big pain because most of the AV programs, if you can get them to run at this point, don't remove it. There is a lot of manual work involved... Stopping processes, editing the registry and removing executables and .dll files. The funnest one was the customer that had us clean her PC, but forgot to tell us that she had a roaming profile on their company server. She put her computer on the network and guess what...
Rootkits are just scary. I read an article about a guy in Florida last week that got busted for planting a rootkit on some girl's PC, manipulating her built-in webcam, and posting naked pics of her up to some server in some eastern Eurpoean country. Turns out he had done this to a bunch of girls near the on a nearby college campus.
Last edited by stickboy : 08-09-2008 at 08:24 PM.
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