Flame Malware Authors Hit Self-Destruct 260
angry tapir writes "The creators of the Flame cyber-espionage threat ordered infected computers still under their control to download and execute a component designed to remove all traces of the malware and prevent forensic analysis. Flame has a built-in feature called SUICIDE that can be used to uninstall the malware from infected computers. However, late last week, Flame's creators decided to distribute a different self-removal module to infected computers that connected to servers still under their control."
SUICIDE not good enough... (Score:5, Funny)
That explains it. (Score:5, Funny)
My mother was wondering why her computer suddenly was working so much better.
Thanks dudes!
That's it, I'm officially convinced (Score:5, Funny)
The people who wrote Flame are the same fine ladies and gentlemen who have brought us CleanMyPC.com. Apparently their accountant is on vacation or something, because removing malware is generally a service that they charge for.
The Other (Score:5, Funny)
maybe it self destructs when it can't find a LAN connection?
Works for Diablo 3...
Re:Interesting (Score:3, Funny)
Second, since when is Pakistan not in the Middle East?
Pakistan has never been in the Middle East.
Re:Interesting (Score:2, Funny)
If it's written in a .NET language, 20mb is about the size of "Hello World!".
Re:SUICIDE not good enough... (Score:2, Funny)
That is almost certainly false. The vendor almost certainly has commands to let them retrieve the full data from the drive over the bus.
Potentially this post is almost certainly informative.