ntoskrnl.exe
Microsoft Boot Up Kernel
Brief description of process ntoskrnl.exe
ntoskrnl.exe
Reported as a virus
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Reported as a trojan horse
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Reported as a spyware
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October 12, 2004 2:00:00 AM CEST
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Trojan Downloader.Agent.UZM – A new Trojan Downloader was spammed today. Trojan is attached in zip archive to emails in HTML format with subject "Hot game" and body text that claims some Angelina Jolie or Lara Croft undressing game. xgame.zip attachment contains xgame.exe (20992B) which drops executes and deletes kernel driver C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\runtime.sys and downloads another downloader smartdrv.exe. runtime.sys runs injects and hides Iexplore.exe process and downloads another components. xgame.exe is detected as Trojan Downloader.Agent.UZM, smartdrv.exe is detected as Trojan Downloader.Agent.UZN, runtime.sys is detected as Trojan Downloader.Agent.THW and other downloaded components are detected as several variants of Trojan Backdoor.Ntrootkit.
November 11, 2009 7:20:25 AM CET
Microsoft fixes several critical flaws – The Redmond company released 6 security bulletins with according patch-sets for this November Black Tuesday. These patches close security holes mainly in Microsoft Office and in the Windows Kernel which allow for example for drive-by-downloads, privilege escalation and remote code injection and execution. Affected are all Microsoft operating systems (including Server 2008 core installations) and nearly [...]
January 5, 2004 1:00:00 AM CET
Linux Kernel do_mremap Function Boundary Condition Vulnerability – Type: Vulnerability. The Linux kernel does not do sufficient bounds checking in the do_mremap function, allowing for local privilege escalation.
November 16, 2009 10:05:07 PM CET
Google to Launch “Bob” ??? – Remember Microsoft Bob? It was a shiny new windowing system on top of a windows kernel. Now Google is announcing the imminent release of the Chrome OS which, according to the official Google blog http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html is a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. So is it an OS or a GUI? Chrome OS [...]
