I honestly feel like if folks put a tenth of the effort into taming some unwanted features of 10 that they do into getting Linux to do some things, they wouldn’t mind it so much but to each their own. I had mixed feelings at first but with a little tweaking I have it doing like I want and am enjoying the lin kernel and shell updates. I went to the penguin for a while until it got bloated and went to win7 which was also pretty darn good. Some of the later slim releases will run on remarkably limited machines. It probably won’t get much love here thanks to some hippies stealing unix changed the world for most folks here but I really thought xp was pretty decent. For me it was fast, stable, and still had good compatibility for some special older programs that I still use. Posted in Security Hacks Tagged malware, security, Sophos, virtualbox, windows xp Post navigation
Still, unlike some malware stories we’ve seen, at least this one is real.
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The Sophos analysis has a fascinating delve into some of the Windows batch file tricks it uses to probe its environment and set up the connections between host and XP, leaving us amazed at the unorthodox use of a complete Microsoft OS and that seemingly we have reached a point of system bloat at which such a large unauthorised download and the running of a complete Microsoft operating system albeit one from twenty years ago in a hypervisor can go unnoticed. The Ragnar Locker ransomware payload is a tiny 49 kB component of the XP image, which the infected host will run on the hypervisor unchallenged. A WIndows exploit allows Microsoft Installer to download the whole thing as a 122 MB installer package that hides the hypervisor and a 282 MB disk image containing Windows XP. The crusty Windows version is packaged up with a copy of an older version of the VirtualBox hypervisor on which to run it. The researchers at Sophos have found one that conceals itself as probably the ultimate Trojan horse: it hides its tiny payload in a Windows XP installation.
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In the nearly four decades since the first PC viruses spread in the wild, malware writers have evolved some exceptionally clever ways to hide their creations from system administrators and from anti-virus writers.
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