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====== The ZeuS malware incident ====== | ====== The ZeuS malware incident ====== | ||
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My Windows 7 desktop computer was hit by [[http:// | My Windows 7 desktop computer was hit by [[http:// | ||
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* Why ZeuS caused TCP socket flooding that finally made you detect it? I assume that this happened because of some sort of malfunction on ZeuS or because of the fact that I had an active firewall that blocked the sockets causing ZeuS to open more and more sockets. But all this is purely speculation. I was lucky to have that TCP socket flooding happening. Without it I might have been running ZeuS like forever. It is also possible that this ZeuS variant was just acting annoying on purpose. But I think this is unlikely: nowdays malware is mostly to do something beneficial without getting noticed by the user, not to act annoying and dropping network connections. | * Why ZeuS caused TCP socket flooding that finally made you detect it? I assume that this happened because of some sort of malfunction on ZeuS or because of the fact that I had an active firewall that blocked the sockets causing ZeuS to open more and more sockets. But all this is purely speculation. I was lucky to have that TCP socket flooding happening. Without it I might have been running ZeuS like forever. It is also possible that this ZeuS variant was just acting annoying on purpose. But I think this is unlikely: nowdays malware is mostly to do something beneficial without getting noticed by the user, not to act annoying and dropping network connections. | ||
- | {{tag>IT 2013 2014 2017 Tor malware virus ZeuS Opera svchost Windows}} | + | {{tag>it 2013 2014 2017 malware virus windows}} |