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Holes in your programs and how they can help install Rootkits
Published December 1st, 2006 in All Categories, Exploits & Vulnerabilities, Security
Have you ever wondered why you have anti virus, anti spyware, anti adware ( Microsoft Windows 
Defender, Spybot, Spywareblaster ) but but still get windows popping up with ads, your hard drive is constantly churning or your internet usage stats have gone sky high.
Many users have the latest greatest software for stopping viruses and spyware but what they don’t know is that programs like Internet Explorer, Microsoft Word and other commonly used programs have "holes" in them that allow an attacker to take control of their computer from a remote location. The attacker can then install whatever application they want. Keyloggers and Spyware ( to name a few ) along with programs that send out Spam to millions of email accounts around the world seem to be the most popular at the moment.
A lot of these programs that an attacker installs are hidden by a rootkit which will prevent many scanning programs from finding the malware. For example when your Spyware scanner scans your computer the rootkit will "tell" the scanner "nothing here" but you will still get spyware pop-ups. Anti Rootkit - Holes in your programs and how they can help install Rootkits
