According to security investigator Sergey Golovanov at Kaspersky Lab, an extremely infamous rootkit, the TDSS is now equipped with a self-propagating technique with which the malware can reach fresh victims. Theregister.co.uk reported this on June 3, 2011.
Highlights Golovanov that the TDSS rootkit that's as well called TDL4 and Alureon manages to contaminate more-and-more computers by utilizing 2 different techniques.
One of them involves contaminating detachable drives with malware, which runs whenever the PC links up with the related device. Notably, it's been years that perpetrators have used this method, while other PC viruses like Conficker too have used it. Evidently, the TDSS does many things, but the only unusual thing it does is utilizing malware programs titled as pornmovs.lnk and myporno.avi.lnk.
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