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BitDefender, an award-winning provider of security software and services, today released a free removal tool against the worm LovGate (its last version is Win32.LovGate.C@mm), which has widely spread in the wild in the last four days. The novelty brought by this worm is that it integrates in the Windows OS, becoming a part of the operating system process.
The worm author had access to an undocumented function of one of the Microsoft Windows operating system, so he was able to break into the "lsass" process and identified itself with this system process. "The virus is the more treacherous as it cannot be blocked until the process "lsass" is stopped, or the process' stopping could mean also damaging the operating system", stated Mihai Chiriac, Virus Researcher at BitDefender.
The worm author had access to an undocumented function of one of the Microsoft Windows operating system, so he was able to break into the "lsass" process and identified itself with this system process. "The virus is the more treacherous as it cannot be blocked until the process "lsass" is stopped, or the process' stopping could mean also damaging the operating system", stated Mihai Chiriac, Virus Researcher at BitDefender.
Source and more: Bit Defender
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