rootkit

Data from a Czech security firm showed that a big slice of infected PCs fall upon machines on Windows XP.

Last week Avast Software released its report that reveals that Windows XP machines are disproportionally infected with rootkits.

Having a 58% share of all Windows systems used XP accounts for 74% of the rootkit infected PCs, says Avast.

In comparison, Windows 7 machines make up only 12% of infected PCs.

According to the latest report of the researchers hackers who developed the rootkit responsible for destroying Windows on users’ PCs after they installed a Microsoft security patch have updated their malware. Now there is no conflict between the virus and the software patch.

As is known the rootkit which was known under different names like TDSS, Tidserv and TDL3 caused Windows XP PCs to crash after users applied the MS10-015 security update.