Intraday malicious virus program: Rootkit.Win32.Mnless.bra
Behaviour:
This is a malicious Rootkit virus program which changes IE Browser home page to malicious URL with computer underlayer driver technique.
After being executed, the virus program shall hijack infected computer system drivers to redirect IE Browser home page to malicious URL. Meanwhile, the virus program has driver stage protection; so antivirus software can not detect and delete this virus from infected devices. So, hackers get profits from the increasing traffic of malicious websites.
Statistics:
RISING Cloud Security reported:
From June 4 to June 6, 2010 there were 3,020,160 devices got malicious attack via malicious Webpage Horse Hanging tech, and RISING Virus Lab has intercepted 356,361 malicious hyperlinks with webpage Horse Hanging tech. And Rising Cloud Security got 35,939 reports from end users.
Top5 Infected Website:
1, bbs.game.mop.com/bpb/news/2970.html
with malicious hyperlink: **.com/data/dm/ie.html, etc.
2, e.6to23.com/a/list/10992.html
with malicious hyperlink: **com/360.html?xxxx, etc.
3, ent.shangdu.com/09yule_huayu/28288/?110285.html
with malicious hyperlink: **cn/include/data/a/ie.html?xxxx, etc.
4, hy.tsinghua.edu.cn
with malicious hyperlink: **cn/admin/webedit/dialog/about/n6.htm, etc.
5, www.daphne.com.cn/baidu/game/aion/197.html
with malicious hyperlink: **cn/baidu/game/aion/3l58.html, etc.
Notice: the symbol ‘*’ means a stochastic letter or number.
Solutions:
1. Install Rising Internet Security or Rising Anti-virus, personal firewall, update in time, and at least 3 times per day for updating Rising.
2. Install Rising PC Doctor, and choose “Leaks” function to check the leaks or vulnerabilities exist in your computer operation system, patch your computer system in a timely manner as many viruses spread by taking advantage of the system exploits or vulnerabilities.
3. Do not browse suspicious websites, and suspicious inserter; turn off or delete unnecessary system services.
4. Do not receive the suspicious file from QQ, MSN, Email, etc.
5. Open RISING Active Defense and Auto-Protect function when accessing to the internet.
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