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'Mebroot' proves to be a tough rootkit to crack

posted onMarch 5, 2008
by hitbsecnews

A rootkit uncovered in the wild in December is proving to be a real headache to detect, according to Finnish security company F-Secure.

Dubbed "Mebroot," the rootkit infects the master boot record (MBR), the first sector of a PC's hard drive that the computer looks to before loading the operating system. Since it loads before anything else, Mebroot is nearly invisible to security software.

"You can't execute any earlier than that," F-Secure's chief research officer, Mikko Hypponen, said. A rootkit is a malicious program that hides deep in a computer's operating system and can be difficult to remove.

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