Details of a new cyber-espionage tool dubbed Red October emerged early this week This complex piece of malware is built in a modular manner and carries all the prerequisite for a successful attack, such as infection components, plugins and command and control mechanisms.
The infection appears to have gone unnoticed for an incredible amount of time, judging by the timestamp of its components, even though some of the files had been successfully detected and blocked by some antivirus products.
If you are running a computer network crucial to your business, you are advised to download and run the free removal tool provided by Bitdefender to remove any traces of infection. You can download the file from the Bitdefender Removal Tools repository, or, alternatively, from the Bitdefender Labs blog.
Removal tool provided courtesy to Andrei Nacu, malware researcher.
come on…
to kill svchost.exe (C:\Program Files\Windows NT\svchost.exe)
and delete 2 files : svchost.exe and lhafd.gcp from C:\Program Files\Windows NT\
is need a removal tool?
This may look super-easy to you, but removal tools are usually designed for regular Internet users. Some of them have never killed a process, let alone delete files from system areas.
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If the antivirus Bitdefender, check this utility will probably be too much?
The Removal Tool detected uTorrent.exe in Program Files and Skype(updater.exe). I installed Skype from their website and that was on 15.01.2013 so it couldn’t be infected. I think this is false positive. (I scanned two of my PCs and Bitdef. Removal tool showed the same thing. 2 infected files Skype(updater.exe) and uTorrent.exe. Hope you fix this .I also scanned the files with https://www.virustotal.com/ . and it didn’t pick up any virus or similar.
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:( . Where can i download ?
Its already mentioned in the post