Microsoft has discovered a new variant on a bootkit so malicious that Microsoft's original recommended solution was to reinstall Windows from a recovery CD.
In a recent blog post on TechNet, Chun Feng, an engineer with the Microsoft Malware Protection Center, warned that users will have to roll back Windows via a recovery CD if they are infected with what it refers to as Popureb.E, which now inludes a driver component that triggers at boot time.
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