Your computer is now stoned (...again!)

2008-04-01

Elia Florio

Symantec Security Response, Ireland

Kimmo Kasslin

F-Secure Security Lab, Malaysia
Editor: Helen Martin

Abstract

Mebroot - the MBR rootkit - is one of the most advanced and stealthiest malware seen to date. It operates in the lowest levels of the operating system, uses many undocumented tricks and relies heavily on unexported functions and global variables. In this article Elia Florio and Kimmo Kasslin track the rise of the MBR rootkit.

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