Vundo Trojan: a good lesson

Greetings Visitor or potential customer,

I want to talk to you about my recent experience with a very tough Malware (see the wiki definition of Malware) application to get rid of, Vundo. Before I get a head of myself and perhaps bore you with some technical terms about malware I want to describe what happened to my system, how I discovered it and what steps I did pulling my hair out to get rid of something so vicious I didn’t understand it.

This little monster (Vundo) comes in many variants, but ultimately does pretty much the same thing. Vundo (wiki article on Vundo) appears to be a morphing virus, that is, a virus that alters it’s symptom or location of its files that it infects.  However this is not the case it is simply a very nasty Trojan (webopedia definition), no not the condom, the fabled Trojan horse story in which the Greeks hidden inside a large wooden horse convincing their enemies, the Trojans, that the horse was a gift, but inside were lots of Greek soldiers that came out after dusk to take over the city of Troy. You’ll see in a minute why this historic reference is very significant.