Our friends at Microsoft recently blogged about a new variant of a bootkit Trojan from the family they call Popureb. The variant, Win32/Popureb.E, introduced a driver component to prevent a malicious master boot record (MBR) and other malicious components from being cleaned.
At least one tech writer was quick to pick up on the implications of the following sentence from the Microsoft blog:
"If your system is infected with Trojan:Win32/Popureb.E, we advise fixing the MBR using the Windows Recovery Console to return the MBR to a clean state."
Mark Hachman wrote an article for pcmag.com entitled "Microsoft's Answer to Vicious Malware? Reinstall Windows." In the article, Mark refers to a blog post on the Symantec Connect site that at first glance may appear to...