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steve2470

(37,457 posts)
Tue Jun 21, 2016, 12:48 PM Jun 2016

Kovter malware learns from Poweliks with persistent fileless registry update

http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/kovter-malware-learns-poweliks-persistent-fileless-registry-update

Windows Defender just caught this and deleted it from my hard drive. So, WD is not totally useless. I have Kaspersky and Malwarebytes also.

on edit: I have no idea how it got on my hard drive. Drive-by download maybe, from an infected page ?
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