http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/ Engadget Comments for Microsoft confirms rootkit caused Windows XP blue screens http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/Feb 19th 2010 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/Oh sweet, I got in? Do you guys have t-shirts and coffee mugs?]]>Feb 19th 2010 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/Don't forget the secret handshake! ]]>Feb 19th 2010 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/
But atleast everyone's not blaming microsoft for bad patch ? or are they ?]]>Feb 19th 2010 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/.>]]>Feb 19th 2010 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/Feb 19th 2010 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/Feb 19th 2010 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/Feb 19th 2010 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/Feb 19th 2010 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/I'm still using XP and love it. Just because the majority of people don't know how to properly protect a computer and succumb to security flaws, doesn't mean everyone that uses that operating system are inferior to your intelligence. No OS is perfect security wise. That's why people use software based, or in my case hardware based, security to supplement their OS's bulit in security.


PS, Yoggie Gatekeeper Card Pro is amazing. 6 months of use on this computer, and not a single security breach.]]>Feb 19th 2010 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/
And let's be real, they are dumb, just like there would be dumb Vista people who keep going to sites like Dll4All, or dumb 7 people who don't know they can tweak the superbar or disable Player 11 and IE.]]>Feb 19th 2010 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/XP is inherently less secure than Vista/7. Because the user is always running in a privileged state, it opens the floodgates for all kinds of exploits. Being fooled by social engineering attacks isn't the only way to get malware on your computer. But by all means, please keep using an outdated OS with an inferior security model.]]>Feb 19th 2010 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/
This. Seriously, the only reason to be using XP would be if you have some old software that you absolutely can't get to work on a newer OS, or if you're smart enough to keep it secure and running well. So about ~90% of people should drop it.

Seriously people, it is a 10yr old OS, get over it.]]>Feb 19th 2010 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/Feb 19th 2010 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/Feb 19th 2010 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/Everyone is
Trashing Windows.
Alureon is
Mainly the culprit
And is hopefully
Considered malware by now.]]>Feb 19th 2010 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/
Hi Captain Kirk!]]>Feb 19th 2010 11:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/
Or get Win 7 which blows past OSX pretty good.]]>Feb 19th 2010 11:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/Feb 19th 2010 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/
I see what you did there]]>Feb 19th 2010 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/Enjoying your TRIM support while using your MacBook Ai-OH WAIT!]]>Feb 19th 2010 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/Feb 19th 2010 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/
OS X has like, VERY little market share compared to Windows. Yet people who use the underdog just happen to be the only ones labeled as sheep?]]>Feb 19th 2010 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/It's not because OS X is the underdog (which according to Mac ad that title goes to Windows), it's because you buy anything with a apple logo. Also because you preach what Jobs tells you to preach.]]>Feb 19th 2010 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/Feb 19th 2010 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/
"Win32/Alureon is a family of data-stealing trojans. These trojans allow an attacker to intercept incoming and outgoing Internet traffic in order to gather confidential information such as user names, passwords, and credit card data. The Win32/Alureon trojan may also allow an attacker to transmit malicious data to the infected computer. The trojan may modify DNS settings on the host computer to enable the attacker to perform these tasks. Therefore it may be necessary to reconfigure DNS settings after the trojan is removed from the computer."

From http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Threat/Encyclopedia/Entry.aspx?Name=Win32%2fAlureon

I think it's a good thing this happened since people might now realise their PCs were infected with this!]]>Feb 19th 2010 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/Feb 19th 2010 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/My wife's laptop had the endless reboot/blue screen and trust me, if her job allowed it, I would have upgraded her to W7 a long time ago.]]>Feb 19th 2010 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/
Is this laptop your wife uses a company one? Cause that company laptop has had this trojan. Nice. Please say she doesn't work for a financial company.

If it's not a company laptop, upgrade to windows 7 and download the XP mode and be done with it. You're posting on a tech blog, I would think you would know how to do this.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx]]>Feb 19th 2010 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/I actually got ton of BSOD when trying to upgrade my wife's laptop from Vista to 7 (clean reinstall). Eventually I succeeded, but I'm a bit alarmed, it's a been a while since I had BSOD]]>Feb 19th 2010 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/
No reason to update unless one needs the new features. If it is not broken, why fix it?]]>Feb 19th 2010 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/How, in the name of all that is holy, did you get that from this article? It says specifically, several times, that the virus is causing the BSOD's, not the update.]]>Feb 19th 2010 11:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/
I would love to think that would be clear enough...]]>Feb 19th 2010 11:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/Feb 19th 2010 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/Feb 19th 2010 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/Feb 19th 2010 12:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/isn't the commerical using macs? -__-]]>Feb 19th 2010 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/Feb 19th 2010 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/
So yeah, you're reported.]]>Feb 19th 2010 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/Feb 19th 2010 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/Feb 19th 2010 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/Feb 19th 2010 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/Feb 19th 2010 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/Feb 19th 2010 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/Feb 19th 2010 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/Feb 20th 2010 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/Feb 19th 2010 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/Feb 19th 2010 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/Feb 19th 2010 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/microsoft-confirms-rootkit-caused-windows-xp-blue-screens/Feb 19th 2010 12:52PM