Microsoft patch aims to stop rootkit
InternetNews | at | by Mike
Microsoft's Windows operating system remains a huge target for the bad guys. Datamation has the story on the software giant's latest patch for malware called a rootkit that infected some user's PCs.
Microsoft has rereleased a bug patch from last month that some Windows XP users blamed for repeated restarts and blue screen crashes.
After investigating, however, Microsoft security engineers determined that the crashes and reboots were being caused by a piece of malware called a rootkit that infected those users' PCs.