New Trends in malware?

[slgrieb]

It really is quite true that most of the nasty stuff is all rootkit based.

You'll certainly not get any arguments from me on that statement; I'm just saying that lately I'm not encountering much that's particularly hard to remove. And I believe one reason is that malware distributors may simply find that putting up a lot of short-lived sites hosting malware that targets common security vulnerabilities (particularly if it appeals to the conceptually challenged) may be more cost effective than trying to write a super bug. The clueless will always be slow to deal with any infection, and they will most assuredly be re-infected over and over again, no matter what defenses they use. Why buy an elephant gun to shoot turkeys?

Happy Thanksgiving!